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[Jan Stránský <honzik.stransky@xxxxxxxxx>]

> The function was split because I was following the work by Thornton 
> who suggested something equivalent to prove that the shear stress 
> contribution to the total stress was little if compared to the normal 
> one during a triaxial loading. Why would you not split it at all? Just 
> curious :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Chiara

Hi Chiara,

maybe "at all" was too strong, but I meant nothing more than for usual 
computations you need the total stress,  :-)
So would you prefer to have this function as a basic and other functions 
(total stress) built from its results? Just asking before I do it :-)
Thanks
Jan