12.108 | Fall 2004 | Undergraduate

Structure of Earth Materials

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Notes from the lecture covering the following topics: Assigned reading, resource reading, elasticity, anisotropic (single crystal) elasticity, linear elastic equations, symmetry causes further restrictions, stiffness moduli, elastic stiffness or compliance in an arbritrary direction, Relations among moduli, stiffnesses and compliances, some typical values of compressibility and Poisson?s ratio, and equivalent formulations for isotropic elastic materials in principal stress representation.

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