Module 3: 3D Constitutive Equations
  Lecture 10: Constitutive Relations: Generally Anisotropy to Orthotropy
 


Symmetry with respect to two Orthogonal Planes:

Let us assume that the material under consideration has one more plane, say x2-x3 is plane of material symmetry along with x1-x2 as in (A). These two planes are orthogonal to each other. This transformation is shown in Figure 3.3.
This can be mathematically formulated by the change of axes as

(3.22)

And

(3.23)

This gives us the required strain relations as (from Equation (3.12)).

or using contracted notations, we can write,

(3.24)

Figure 3.3: Material symmetry about x1-x2  andx2-x3 planes