Hello, I am planning to use a symmetric tensor rank-6 for third-order elastic constants in a nonlinear elasticity code. The tensor is supposed to be symmetric within each three pair indices as well as all possible orders of pair permutations. Namely, C_ijklmn = C_jiklmn = C_ijlkmn = C_ijklnm = C_klijmn = C_mnijkl ,.....This tensor without any material symmetry will have 56 independent elements.
The SymmetricTensor class provides the symmetry within the pairs without the symmetry obtained by permutation of pairs and it will be totally fine and I can take care of the extra symmetry I need by writing the equal elements as many times as required. However, the problem is that I can not even initialize a rank-6 tensor. Interestingly it works for rank-4 though. It seems that I am missing something in the instruction of the tensor. Only the following simplest line of code gives me an error. $ *SymmetricTensor<6, dim> C; * The error is: /home/hbabaei/deal.ii-candi/deal.II-v9.0.1/include/deal.II/base/symmetric_tensor.h:563:29: error: incomplete type ‘dealii::internal::SymmetricTensorAccessors::StorageType<6, 3, double>’ used in nested name specifier static const unsigned int n_independent_components ^ /home/hbabaei/deal.ii-candi/deal.II-v9.0.1/include/deal.II/base/symmetric_tensor.h:1046:1: error: size of array is not an integral constant-expression SymmetricTensor<rank_,dim,Number>::SymmetricTensor (const Number (&array) [n_independent_components]) ^ /home/hbabaei/deal.ii-candi/deal.II-v9.0.1/include/deal.II/base/symmetric_tensor.h:1046:100: error: size of array is not an integral constant-expression SymmetricTensor<rank_,dim,Number>::SymmetricTensor (const Number (&array) [n_independent_components]) ^ /home/hbabaei/deal.ii-candi/deal.II-v9.0.1/include/deal.II/base/symmetric_tensor.h:861:61: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct dealii::internal::SymmetricTensorAccessors::StorageType<6, 3, double>’ typedef typename base_tensor_descriptor::base_tensor_type base_tensor_type; ^ /home/hbabaei/deal.ii-candi/deal.II-v9.0.1/include/deal.II/base/symmetric_tensor.h:188:12: error: declaration of ‘struct dealii::internal::SymmetricTensorAccessors::StorageType<6, 3, double>’ struct StorageType; ^ It seems that I need to specify n_independent_components, but I do not know how and where I can do so. I appreciate it if you could give me any clue how to implement a rank-6 tensor successfully. Thanks and regards, -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.