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["Chiara Modenese" <chiara.modenese@xxxxxxxxx>]

Now it is clear. I would say that to me it seems not a negligible problem, I will think about it.
Perhaps in my case I will need such ortogonality and anyway I think it could be requested quite often.


Thanks for your explanation (by this time).


Chiara



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Date      : Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:23:52 +0100
Subject : Re: [Yade-dev] stiffnesses







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> > just to know where should be done the calculation of the stiffnesses according to Yade (I mean, to the design of Yade)? In the elastic contact law itself?
>
> As said, it should be probably in Ip2 functor. But since intrPhys and
> intrGeom are not completely orthogonal, it is not very clean for type
> enforcement reasons as explained in the other mail.
>
> We inherited this design from original authors. If you have some better
> solution, let us know.
>
> In FEM codes material is orthogonal to geometry, but in Yade material
> represents just input data for "interaction material" (intrPhys), and
> this conversion from material to intrPhys might need geometry.
>
> v
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