Ebook: Ellipsoidal anisotropies in linear elasticity. Extension of Saint Venant’s work to phenomenological modelling of materials

International Journal of Damage Mechanics, Vol. 16, January 2007, pp. 95-126In this paper, first several basic classes of ellipsoidal anisotropy are presented. Then the problem of determination of the elastic parameters from indicator surfaces is discussed in several basic cases that can occur in phenomenological modelling.