Abstract: | An algorithm for a digital computer is presented which permits calculating the tensor of the elastic constants of a material with any given symmetry on the basis of experimentally measured Young moduli and Poisson ratios for several specimens oriented in unequivalent crystallographic directions. The results of determining the components of the tensor of elastic constants by means of it for a modification of orthotropic reinforced plastic are also given.Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 436–442, May–June, 1973. |