In this paper, a new treatment of Cauchy’s measure of mean rotation in continuum mechanics is given, a representation theorem is proved, and the connection between Cauchy’s measure and the finite rotation tensor is established. Cauchy’s and Novozhilov’s measures of mean rotation are compared.

Issue Section:
Research Papers
Topics:
Rotation, Continuum mechanics, Tensors, Theorems (Mathematics)
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