Irreducible decompositions of physical tensors of high orders

Journal of Engineering Mathematics

Volumn 37, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 273-288

  Zheng, Q S ^a   Zou, W N ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Deviatoric tensors; Elasticity; High order tensors; Irreducible decompositions

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PLASTICITY; THEOREM PROVING;

DEVIATORIC TENSORS; HIGH ORDER TENSORS; IRREDUCIBLE DECOMPOSITIONS;

TENSORS;

ELASTICITY; TENSOMETRY;

EID: 0034144033     PISSN: 00220833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004754832099     Document Type: Article

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