El 28/09/2011, a las 09:17, D. Mukhopadhyay escribió:
> Stress across a particular surface is a vector; stress at a point connotes surface stresses on planes of all possible orientations passing through the point; it is a symmetric tensor of 3rd rank.
If I am not wrong (wouldn't be the first time, nor the last), stress is a second order tensor, not third.
All the best!
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Dr. Luis Arlegui
Area de Geodinámica Interna
Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra
Universidad de Zaragoza
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