On the elastic orthotropy

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Authors

  • A. Blinowski Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  • J. Ostrowska-Maciejewska Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Abstract

Expressions for Kelvin moduli of orthotropic linearly elastic bodies in terms of Young's moduli and Poisson's ratios are presented. The check of the orthotropy criterion is posed as a variational problem.