Relaxed hyperelastic curves


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YÜCESAN A., Ozkan G., Yay Y.

ANNALES POLONICI MATHEMATICI, cilt.102, sa.3, ss.223-230, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

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We define relaxed hyperelastic curve, which is a generalization of relaxed elastic lines, on an oriented surface in three-dimensional Euclidean space E(3), and we derive the intrinsic equations for a relaxed hyperelastic curve on a surface. Then, by examining relaxed hyperelastic curves in a plane, on a sphere and on a cylinder, we show that geodesics are relaxed hyperelastic curves in a plane and on a sphere. But on a cylinder, they are relaxed hyperelastic curves only in special cases.