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In the continuous model of a solid object, which is ideally considered composed of such material points that each one of them is surrounded by a dense neighbourhood fully occupied by other points, the deformation is a variation carried out by a transformation, which does not preserve isometry (Hutter and Jöhnk 2004). Deformations differ from displacements caused by rigid motions. If a solid object undergoes a rigid motion, all its points change position with the same variation rate.
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Calì, C. (2020). Deformation. In: Vercellone, F., Tedesco, S. (eds) Glossary of Morphology. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_20
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