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A common approach for generating an anisotropic mesh is the M-uniform mesh approach where an adaptive mesh is generated as a uniform one in the metric specified by a given tensor M. A key component is the determination of an appropriate…
In this paper, we establish two sufficient conditions for the strong ellipticity of any fourth-order elasticity tensor and investigate a class of tensors satisfying the strong ellipticity condition, the elasticity $\mathscr{M}$-tensor. The…
A quasistatic unilateral frictionless contact problem for a rigid axisymmetric indenter pressed into a homogeneous, linearly elastic and transversely isotropic elastic layer bonded to a homogeneous, linearly elastic and transversely…
A time domain system of equations is proposed to model elastic wave propagation in an unbounded two-dimensional anisotropic solid using perfectly matched layer (PML). Starting from a system of first-order frequency domain stress-velocity…
We present a novel framework for the probabilistic modelling of random fourth order material tensor fields, with a focus on tensors that are physically symmetric and positive definite (SPD), of which the elasticity tensor is a prime…