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Part of the book series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ((CISM,volume 144))

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The stiffness tensor, in addition to being a “Jacobian” as mentioned in (3), is positive and definite.

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Kardestuncer, H. (1972). Positive Definitiveness. In: Finite Elements Methods via Tensors. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 144. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4323-0_4

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