Spectral Decomposition of the Compliance Tensor for Anisotropic Plates

Journal of Elasticity

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 89-103

  Theocaris, Pericles S ^a   Sokolis, Dimitrios P ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compliance tensor; Eigenvector; Plane eigenangle; Spectral decomposition

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSORS; VECTORS;

ANISOTROPIC PLATES; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0032300915     PISSN: 03743535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007549729716     Document Type: Article

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