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[Chiara Modenese <question176964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #176964 on Yade changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/176964

    Status: Answered => Open

Chiara Modenese is still having a problem:
On 2 November 2011 12:55, Chareyre
<question176964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Your question #176964 on Yade changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/176964
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>    Status: Open => Answered
>
> Chareyre proposed the following answer:
> Actually, the strain tensor is simply not defined (only the diagonal term
> is).
> Had it to be defined, then we would have to choose between various large
> strain formalisms, but why would we do that?
> The only thing you have is the transformation matrix, and I think that
> most authors are using it to define the shear amplitude.
> If you shear along (x,y), then O.cell.tsrf(x,y) will give you the
> displacement/height value.

Yes it is what am doing, I was just wondering if when I set
velGrad[0,2]=toSomething am really shearing at a constant rate considering
that we are in large deformation... Is it so then? Thanks, Chiara


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