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incompressibility

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incompressibility [¦in·kəm‚pres·ə′bil·əd·ē]
(mechanics)
Quality of a substance which maintains its original volume under increased pressure.


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These stress relaxation data were converted into shear relaxation data, assuming near incompressibility of the material.
For simplicity, the material is assumed to be incompressible, which allows for the thickness to be calculated from the original thickness by use of the incompressibility condition:
The primary reason for this action is the higher viscosity and incompressibility of water compared with gas.
 
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