Abstract:
In present paper, the construction of Nye figures for micropolar solids is discussed. A general anisotropic micropolar elastic solid is reduced to a hemitropic, then to an ultrahemitropic, and finally to an ultraisotropic micropolar solid. The constitutive tensors of the fourth rank are transformed to a two-dimensional matrix form. The final Nye figures for the considered micropolar solids are obtained by combining the elementary figures for the constitutive tensors. We obtain Nye figures that graphically represent a hemitropic, ultrahemitropic, and ultraisotropic micropolar elastic solid and the couples between the components of the asymmetric constitutive tensors.
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