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[Václav Šmilauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>]

> > PS I think the way both Dem3DofGeom and ScGeom currently work is not
> > prospective. ScGeom is dumb and only stores a few numbers inside, making
> > Law doing all the computation;
> Don't you refer to a months-old version of ScGeom? ScGeom has members!
If you mean updateShearForce...
> > As we already discussed, it would be much more efficient to precompute
> > normal and shear displacements in the Ig2 functor and store it in the
> > *Geom class. Only writing back to *Geom from Law2 (such as upon a
> > plastic slip) would need a few virtual methods, which could be
> > interface-wise identical for incremental and total formulations BTW.
> Ok for precomputing un and us, but is there a general reason to put more 
> members in a geometry class?
> With ScGeom, there is no plastic slip to update in the geometry, I'm not 
> sure we need any virtual function in incremental formulation.
That was if you wanted to have the same interface for both... Not my
business, anyway.