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The variation of material properties with respect to direction at a fixed point in a material is called material symmetry.
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Cowin, S.C. (2013). Modeling Material Symmetry. In: Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5025-2_4
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