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July 31, 2020 at 3:41 pm
Dragana Jandric
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Hydrostatic strain is the scalar quantity whose magnitude is the average of three normal strains. Hydrostatic strain only contributes to the volumetric change of a body and does not cause any shear deformation. It is also often expressed in a matrix form with only three diagonal terms.Â