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Thus is a condition that prevails in a flat plate in the xy plane, loaded only in its own plane and without z-direction restraint, so that Then, constitutive matrix is:

 

 

where E is the Young's modulus, ν the Poisson's ratio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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