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DR. Gordon describes a theory of ‘straining’ that is certainly not mine. Dr. Gordon merely discusses the rotation of an assembly of elemental rigid blocks (or the undeformed body) with initial vector diagonal d r and current diagonal d t, and correctly finds that since the body is not deformable then it can only rotate as a whole (or be translated). Dr. Gordon gives no indication of what is to be understood as ‘strain’ in order to allow examination of the compatibility conditions mathematically necessary to ensure integrability to give ‘displacements’.
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SWAINGER, K. A Linear Theory of Finite Strain. Nature 166, 657–659 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166657b0
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