Micro and macro material symmetries in generalized continua (Q1064101)

Material symmetry restrictions on constitutive moduli of anisotropic elastic solids formed by different modes of aggregation (i.e. with material elements having micro and macro domains characterized by scales of different length) are investigated. An analysis is presented of the combined influence of anisotropy, substructure orientation, and long- range-order nonlocal interactions. Starting with a suitable attenuation function, a constitutive theory is constructed for a nonlocal-polar elastic solid possessing orthotropy at the nonlocal-polar level and transverse isotropy at the local polar level.