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How did Voigt derive the average shear modulus of an anisotropic material, G=1/5 (A-B+3C), where 3A=c11+c22+c33, 3B=c12+c13+c23, 3C=c44+c55+c66? The original text is published in German about 100 years ago. I looked for other papers explaining this, but none has explained the derivation. They...