Solid mechanics

[1] It has specific applications in many other areas, such as understanding the anatomy of living beings, and the design of dental prostheses and surgical implants.

Solid mechanics extensively uses tensors to describe stresses, strains, and the relationship between them.

A solid is a material that can support a substantial amount of shearing force over a given time scale during a natural or industrial process or action.

If the applied stress is sufficiently low (or the imposed strain is small enough), almost all solid materials behave in such a way that the strain is directly proportional to the stress; the coefficient of the proportion is called the modulus of elasticity.

It is most common for analysts in solid mechanics to use linear material models, due to ease of computation.