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6.2.4.2 External Work
The linearization of the body force term is The linearization of the traction force term is Note that depends on the nature of the surface traction. For a prescribed traction we have . A contact analysis needs more elaborate derivations (not yet implemented as of FEBio 2.7). In the above expression we used where the unit outward normal is evaluated as