Nominal stress tensor

ID: nominal-stress-tensor

Nominal stress tensor by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
Here the convention places the material index first: . Its stress power per reference volume is . It is the transpose of the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor; some texts instead call that first tensor itself nominal stress.

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