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On the elastic moduli
and compliances of transversely isotropic and orthotropic
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Vlado A. Lubarda and Michelle C. Chen |
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Vol. 3 (2008), No. 1, 153–171
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Abstract |
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The relationships between the elastic moduli and compliances of transversely isotropic and orthotropic materials, which correspond to different appealing sets of linearly independent fourth-order base tensors used to cast the elastic moduli and compliances tensors, are derived by performing explicit inversions of the involved fourth-order tensors. The deduced sets of elastic constants are related to each other and to common engineering constants expressed in the Voigt notation with respect to the coordinate axes aligned along the directions orthogonal to the planes of material symmetry. The results are applied to a transversely isotropic monocrystalline zinc and an orthotropic human femural bone. |
Keywords
algebra of tensors, elastic constants, human femur,
orthotropic materials, transverse isotropy, zinc
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Milestones
Received: 19 March 2007
Revised: 8 June 2007
Accepted: 11 June 2007
Published: 11 March 2008
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Authors |
| Vlado A. Lubarda | |
| Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0411 United States |
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| Michelle C. Chen | |
| Department of Structural
Engineering University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0085 United States |
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