A diagonal tensor has numbers on the diagonal running from the upper left to the lower right corner, with all other entries being zero. What does a diagonal stress tensor imply?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: That the coordinate axes of our coordinate system parallel the principal stress axes (or vice versa).
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