When a 13-year old Marie-Sophie Germain was stuck in the house because of the chaotic revolution on the streets of Paris in 1789, she found a refuge for her active mind: her father’s mathematics books ...

The elasticity tensor is a fourth‐order entity that encapsulates the relationship between stress and strain in a material. Its symmetry properties reflect the underlying crystallographic or ...

There is a concept used in calculus and economics called “elasticity.” This idea measures the percent change in one variable as another variable experiences a one percent change. This is often used to ...

Thin structures such as rods, ribbons and shells occupy a central position in the study of elasticity, combining material response with intrinsic and extrinsic geometry. Their mechanical behaviour is ...