The lower the strain energy the higher the stiffness of the structure.

Without the bonds holding the conformation in place, the strain energy would be released.

Local unfolding is the result of competing strain energies in the protein.

For this reason the strain energy in a material is:

If the strain energy so released exceeds a critical value G, then the crack will grow spontaneously.

However, despite its strain energy it is not substantially more explosive than other alkanes.

The first term describes the strain energy in the cantilever due to bending.

The two threshold values for the elastic strain energy and are derived from experimental data.

This is known as having low strain energy.

The strain energy release rate approach has proved quite useful for such situations.