Meanings
nouneigenstrain (plural eigenstrains)
plural eigenstrains
- natural sciencesA residual strain produced without an external force
Optimal structures are either simple laminates that are codirected with external eigenstrain directions, or inclined laminates, direct and skew second-rank laminates and third-rank laminates.
2015, Mikhail A. Antimonov, Andrej Cherkaev, Alexander Freidin, “Phase transformations surfaces and exact energy lower bounds”, in arXiv
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