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In the following we examine the notion of conserved quantities in problems of elastostatics and elastodynamics. We show that the well known formulation which leads toT+V=Constant can be generalised yielding conservation properties to some new and at times unexpected quantities. These new conservation properties may at times be the only means for verifying results obtained by numerical techniques.
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Tabarrok, B., Tezer, C. & Stylianou, M. A note on conservation principles in classical mechanics. Acta Mechanica 107, 137–152 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01201825
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