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Hooke's law

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Hooke's law (hks)
n.
The principle that the stress applied to stretch or compress a body is proportional to the strain or to the change in length thus produced, so long as the limit of elasticity of the body is not exceeded.
Hooke's law
the law explaining linear behavior of elastic material.


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Vertical stiffness of the center of mass during the step phase was calculated according to Hooke's law (F=ky), where F represents force and k the stiffness and y the displacement of the center of mass in the vertical direction.
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Hooke's law of elasticity, Fourier's law of heat conduction, and Darcy's Law for fluid flow in porous media.
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A material that exhibits nonlinear strain behavior and large deformations at small applied stresses is not adequately characterized by Hooke's law, and a functional expression is needed to describe its stress-strain relationship.
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