In 1678, roughly two hundred and fifty years ago, Robert Hooke announced his justly famous law of deformation, “Ut tensio sic vis” or the deformation of a body is proportional to the shearing stress producing it, or finally, in the more elegant language of mathematics, s = eFr.
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Eugene C. Bingham (1930) studied this question.