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For finite strain in isotropic media, only states of homogeneous pure strain will be considered, i.e. states of uniform strain in the medium, with all shear components zero. This is not as restrictive as it might first appear to be, because for small strains a shear strain is exactly equivalent to equal compressive and extensional strains applied at 90° to each other and at 45° to the original axes along which the shear was applied (see problem 6.1). Thus a shear is transformed into a state of homogeneous pure strain simply by a rotation of axes by 45°. A similar transformation can be made for finite strains, but the rotation is then not 45°. All states of homogeneous strain can thus be regarded as pure if suitable axes are chosen. 

Ctjki is a fourth order tensor that linearly relates a and e. It is sometimes called the elastic rigidity tensor and contains 81 elements that completely describe the elastic characteristics of the medium. Because of the symmetry of a and e, only 36 elements of Cyu are independent in general cases. Moreover only 2 independent rigidity constants are present in Cyti for linear homogeneous isotropic purely elastic medium Lame coefficient A and /r have a stress dimension, A is related to longitudinal strain and n to shear strain. For the purpose of clarity, a condensed notation is often used... 

The case of a pure dilational transformation strain in an inhomogeneous elastically isotropic system has been treated by Barnett et al. [10]. For this case, the elastic strain energy does depend on the shape of the inclusion. Results are shown in Fig. 19.9, which shows the ratio of A(inhomo) for the inhomogeneous problem to A<7 (homo) for the homogeneous case, vs. c/a. It is seen that when the inclusion is stiffer than the matrix, AgE (inhomo) is a minimum... 

The controversy regarding the effectiveness of the DFM microorganisms can be explained partially by the use of defined and undefined cultures and by using various strains/species to get the desired effects. Defined product comprises of a known mixture of pure bacterial cultures derived from fecal and caecal contents of the bird, whereas undefined product consists of a homogenous mixture of known aerobic microorganisms and unknown mainly anaerobic microorganisms derived from the caeca of the bird (Mulder et al., 1997). 

Figure 6-3a). In the general case of a pure homogeneous strain, the cube is transformed into a rectangular parallelepiped (Figure 6-3b). The dimensions of the parallelepiped are A, /I2 and /L3 in the three principal axes, where the are called the principal extension ratios. Choosing the coordinate axes for the chain to coincide with the principal axes of strain for the sample, then... 

The mycelium of different strains was extracted three times by homogenization in the presence of CH2CI2. The solvent extracts were concentrated to 10 % of the original volume and cooled to 4 °C to remove some impurities. After decolorization with charcoal, the crystallization was accomplished by evaporation at 50 °C to 6.6 % of the original volume and cooling to 0 °C. The recovery was 95 % pure griseofulvin [29]. 

It is well known, however, that the width of a spectral line, at least in principle, yields information on the dephasing dynamics of the optical transition. Spectral lineshapes of purely electronic transitions in solids unfortunately are seldom determined by dynamic interactions, but, at least at low temperature, quite often by the effects of strain. The observed, named inhomogeneous linewidth is therefore of little interest. In case of vibronic transitions, however, the effect of vibrational relaxation on the lineshape may exceed the inhomogeneous linebroadening. Even so, classical spectroscopy quite often fails to elucidate the nature and strength of the perturbing forces on the optical (homogeneous) lineshape. 

Pure shear is represented in Fig. 5 and is defined as a homogeneous strain in which one of the principal extensions is zero and the volume is unchanged. If the extension ratio A] = a while At = 1. then is /a. 

The problem with the amorphous material is that, even though it may be in a rubbery state, there are likely to be constraints on the chains due to the crystallisation process, which will give the material different properties from those of a purely amorphous rubbery polymer. The difficulty with the two averaging steps is that the states of stress and strain are not homogeneous in materials made up of components with different elastic properties. The simple assumption of uniform stress often gives results closer to experiment than does the assumption of uniform strain, but neither is physically realistic. For polyethylene, values of the average erystal modulus Ec and the average amorphous modulus are found to be about 5 x 10 Pa and 0.25 x 10 Pa, respectively. 

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