PROPERTIES OF THE ANISOTROPIC ELASTICITY TENSOR

DOI10.1093/qjmam/42.2.249zbMath0682.73011OpenAlexW1973274990MaRDI QIDQ4732167

Stephen C. Cowin

Publication date: 1989

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/42.2.249

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy relationsplanes of symmetryVoigt and Reuss boundsdeomposition of the fourth-rank tensorirreducible, completely symmetric and traceless, fourth-rank tensorspecific axis for pure shear wave amplitudesspecific directions of longitudinal wave propagationtwo symmetric second-rank tensors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anisotropy in solid mechanics (74E10) Theory of constitutive functions in solid mechanics (74A20)

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