Conditions for strong ellipticity of anisotropic elastic materials

Journal of Elasticity

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-13

  Han, Deren ^a   Dai, H H ^b   Qi, Liqun ^c  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anisotropic materials; Copositivity; Elasticity tensors; Rhombic systems; Strong ellipticity; Z eigenvalues

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS; COPOSITIVITY; ELASTICITY TENSORS; RHOMBIC SYSTEMS; STRONG ELLIPTICITY; Z-EIGENVALUES;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY;

TENSORS;

EID: 65649110856     PISSN: 03743535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10659-009-9205-5     Document Type: Article

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