Material symmetry and the evolution of anisotropies in a simple material. II: The evolution of material symmetry (Q918762)

This work is the continuation of the authors' previous work on material symmetry and evolution of anisotropies in a simple material [see the foregoing entry (Zbl 0706.73003)]. After some preliminaries, they explained the material symmetry (MS) and material symmetry groups (MSG)s. The MS is defined not as an absolute property of a material, but as a property associated with the state of material. This definition allows MS to change as the material changes its state. Then they showed that the current MSG of the material is obtained as the superset of the intersection of the material's initial MSG with a group of transformations. In the final sections, they studied the application of orthogonal group transformations. This work is interesting and might be very useful for those researchers working in continuum mechanics.