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Third Rank Properties

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Odd rank properties are, in Newnham’s words, null properties, meaning that they may vanish for certain point groups (like all centrosymmetric ones, see Sect. 3.6). As a result, not all materials will display third rank properties. Also as a consequence of being of odd rank, the RS will consist of overlapping positive and negative lobes, as shown in Fig. 7.1.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    And all directed spheres of Chap. 5.

  2. 2.

    The RQ for \(\underline{\underline{B}}\) is the indicatrix for the refractive index [1].

  3. 3.

    No difficulty should arise from the use of r and \(\underline{\underline{\underline{r}}}\) in the same equation. Although the literal symbol is the same, their tensorial rank makes it impossible to confuse them.

  4. 4.

    How would you write this shear stress without resorting to a specific reference frame?.

  5. 5.

    For example, trigonal class 32.

  6. 6.

    Which is not a normal stress in the conventional axes to which \({{\,\mathrm{str}\,}}(\underset{{{{\backsim }}}}{d})\) is referred.

  7. 7.

    Check that (7.6) has three mirror planes at \(\dfrac{2\pi }{3}\) to each other; find their position (their \(\varphi \) values).

  8. 8.

    Try and identify the remaining geometric elements (axes, planes, etc.) of symmetry that leave (7.10) invariant. How many elements of the symmetry group (individual geometric transformations, each represented by its \(\smash {\underset{{{{\backsim }}}}{L}}\)) do these geometric elements of symmetry generate?

  9. 9.

    For rigorous treatments of tensor decomposition see [2,3,4,5].

  10. 10.

    Because only one axis has to be oriented.

  11. 11.

    This is not the only possibility. Can you find another one?.

  12. 12.

    Can you find another two similar ways of constructing \(n_1n_2n_3\)?

  13. 13.

    You can think of \(\underline{P}\) as longitudinal, of \(\underset{{{{\backsim }}}}{d}\) as the upper half of a matrix like \(\underset{{{{\backsim }}}}{s}\) and then recall the block coupling (4.35).

  14. 14.

    Check that for the example (7.17) the eigenvectors of: \(\underset{{{{\backsim }}}}{M}= \begin{bmatrix} 0&{}1&{}1\\ 1&{}0&{}1\\ 1&{}1&{}0 \end{bmatrix}\) form a basis in which \(d_{14}=d_{25}=d_{36}=0\). Is there anything special about this reference frame? What are the eigenvalues of \(\underset{{{{\backsim }}}}{M}\)?

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Laso, M., Jimeno, N. (2020). Third Rank Properties. In: Representation Surfaces for Physical Properties of Materials. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40870-1_7

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