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OOPS! That was an inadvertent mistake. Thanks Luis Dhruba Mukhopadhyay On 9/28/2011 1:23 PM, Luis Arlegui Crespo wrote: > 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! > > > ______________________________ > Dr. Luis Arlegui > Area de Geodinámica Interna > Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra > Universidad de Zaragoza > [log in to unmask] > >