OOF2: The Manual
Name
Deviator (Deviator) — Magnitude of deviatoric part of a symmetric tensor.
Synopsis
Deviator
()
Description
The Deviator
is one of the Invariants
of a symmetric three dimensional rank 2 tensor quantity that can
be computed by the OOF2 Outputs
.
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Note |
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It is equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the traceless part of the tensor. Informally speaking, in elastic problems, it measures the amount of shear represented by the tensor. |