Numerical methods can be used to obtain the dependence relations between components of an nth-rank tensor for the particular symmetries of each crystal class. The program has been used successfully to calculate the fourth-order elastic coefficients, corresponding to a tensor of eighth rank for all crystal classes and the isotropic case.
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