Related to Tensor double dot product: What is the double dot (A:B) product between tensors A(ij) and B(lm)?

Referring to books on continuum mechanics, I see that the standards followed by text are very different. For example, author JN Reddy addresses A:B as A(ij)B(ji); while Holzapfel addresses A:B as...

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