Incremental elastic moduli

ID: incremental-elastic-moduli

For unconstrained hyperelastic material, the Hessian of the strain energy density gives . Commuting the second derivatives gives major symmetry . These material-coordinate moduli linearize about a finite base deformation; they need not have the minor symmetries of a small-strain elastic stiffness tensor. Material constraints require their additional reaction increments and admissibility equations.

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