Explore: Elastic Bodies

will deform when adequate loads are applied to them; if the material is elastic, the object will return to its initial shape and size after removal. This

continuum mechanics and focuses on computations involving elastic, viscoelastic, and plastic bodies in static or dynamic contact. Contact mechanics provides

the parts are rigid bodies, b) the parts are elastic bodies; c) the clearance cannot be ignored and the parts are elastic bodies. By "negligible clearance"

in 1885. They are slower than body waves, e.g., at roughly 90% of the velocity of S waves for typical homogeneous elastic media. In a layered medium (e

be linear-elastic or Hookean. Hooke's law is only a first-order linear approximation to the real response of springs and other elastic bodies to applied

In physics, an elastic collision occurs between two physical objects in which the total kinetic energy of the two bodies remains the same. In an ideal

Contact of two elastic bodies: the Hertz solution (see Matlab code). See also the page on Contact mechanics. Elastodynamics is the study of elastic waves and

{\displaystyle k,} of a body is a measure of the resistance offered by an elastic body to deformation. For an elastic body with a single degree of freedom

problem refers to a set of problems involving ellipsoidal elastic inclusions in an infinite elastic body. Analytical solutions to these problems were first devised

other areas involving elastic waves, S waves, secondary waves, or shear waves (sometimes called elastic S waves) are a type of elastic wave and are one of