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- From: geversti@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Gordon Everstine)
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- Subject: Re: tensors: How about 3rd, 4th rank?
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- Date: 22 Aug 92 12:26:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.190041.6215@pellns.alleg.edu> <1992Aug21.230104.15702@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Another example of a tensor of rank 4 is the material property tensor
- in elasticity. Generalized Hooke's law says that each of the nine
- components of stress is a linear combination of the nine components
- of strain, yielding 81 possible material constants (before accounting
- for symmetries). Thus,
- s(i,j) = c(i,j,k,l) e(k,l)
- with summation (from 1 to 3 in 3-D) over the repeated indices k,l,
- where s is stress, e is strain, and c is a tensor of rank 4.
- It turns out that 21 of the 81 constants are independent in the worst
- case.
-