reticences in classical nonlinear theory of elasticity

On three facts of reticences in the classical mathematical modeling of elastic materials

Three facts of reticences (passing over in silence, an absence of comments) in the procedures of mathematical modeling of elastic materials are described and commented. The first fact consists in a reticence of one of the first steps in the mentioned above procedure – an assumption that the kinematics of deformation is described by the linear approximation of motion of material continuum, namely by gradients of deformation. In the paper, a novel nonlinear approach to this procedure is offered. The second and third facts are associated with constitutive relations.