The stress conjugate to logarithmic strain (Q1094168)

In this work the author studied the stress conjugate to the logarithmic strain. For this, in Section 2 he briefly summarized the kinematical results which are used in the remainder of the paper. The notion of conjugate stress and strain is precisely defined and the conditions under which the corresponding conjugate stress is uniquely determined. In Section 3 the author obtained the stress conjugate to the logarithmic strain. The method utilized depends on finding a formula for deformation rate tensor in terms of the logarithmic right stretch. The author derived such a formula for the cases of two and three distinct principal stretches. The stress conjugate to ln U is found by substitution of these into det(U)T\(\cdot D.\) This work is quite interesting and might be useful for those researchers working in the area of continuum mechanics.