Material symmetries of elasticity tensors

Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 583-598

  Bóna, Andrej ^a   Bucataru, Ioan ^a   Slawinski, Michael A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC CONTINUUM; ELASTICITY TENSORS; MATERIAL SYMMETRIES;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TENSORS;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 10244270606     PISSN: 00335614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmam/57.4.583     Document Type: Article

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