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Contact interactions, stress and material symmetry

Podio-Guidugli P. (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Universit_a di Roma \Tor Vergata', Roma, Italy)

An argument is given intimating that, for nonsimple materials, the concepts of contact interaction and material symmetry, as well as the bridging concept of stress, should be carefully revised and generalized. .