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minidiable
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Equation on multiple lines

Hi to everyone, I am writing a journal article for the IOP Smart Materials and Structures.

I wrote this equation:

\begin{equation}\begin{multlined}\frac{dW}{d\lambda} = \sigma_{1}-\sigma_{2}\nonumber  = nk\Theta\times\Biggl(\frac{1}{2}\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\\+\frac{519\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{4}}{134750N^{4}}\\+\frac{19\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{3}}{1750N^{3}}\\+\frac{11\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{2}}{350N^{2}}\\+\frac{\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)}{10N}\Biggr)\end{multlined}

Which results in the pic attached.

I don´t like it a lot and I would like to know what could I do to have a better equation displaying there.

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Johannes_B
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Not sure what you are looking for, maybe this:
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{mathtools}\begin{document}%    %    \begin{multlined}\begin{align*}     \frac{dW}{d\lambda} = \sigma_{1}-\sigma_{2}\nonumber      =      nk\Theta\times\Biggl(&\frac{1}{2}\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)     \\     &+\frac{519\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{4}}{134750N^{4}}     \\     &+\frac{19\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{3}}{1750N^{3}}     \\     &+\frac{11\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{2}}{350N^{2}}     \\     &+\frac{\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)}{10N}\Biggr)     \end{align*}%    \end{multlined}%    \end{document}
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minidiable
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Like that it is nice but I can´t put anymore a label to the equation because it is just an :

\begin{align*}
...
\end{align*}

How can I put a label to this equation and how can I put a number of equation? If I remove the "*" I have numbers at every line.

Thanks for the help,
Fab.

esdd
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Joined: Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:13 pm
Use an aligned environment inside equation :
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{mathtools}\begin{document}\begin{equation}\label{eq:longeq}     \begin{aligned}[b]% the number will be at b(ottom)     \frac{dW}{d\lambda} = \sigma_{1}-\sigma_{2}%\nonumber      =      nk\Theta\times\Biggl(&\frac{1}{2}\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)     \\     &+\frac{519\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{4}}{134750N^{4}}     \\     &+\frac{19\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{3}}{1750N^{3}}     \\     &+\frac{11\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{2}}{350N^{2}}     \\     &+\frac{\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)}{10N}\Biggr)     \end{aligned}\end{equation}See equation \eqref{eq:longeq}\end{document}

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Best regards
Elke

minidiable
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Thanks for the reply but to me it is not working.

\begin{equation}\label{eq:stressStrain}\begin{aligned}[b]     \frac{dW}{d\lambda} = \sigma_{1}-\sigma_{2}\nonumber      =      nk\Theta\times\Biggl(&\frac{1}{2}\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)     \\     &+\frac{519\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{4}}{134750N^{4}}     \\     &+\frac{19\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{3}}{1750N^{3}}     \\     &+\frac{11\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)^{2}}{350N^{2}}     \\     &+\frac{\left(2\lambda-\frac{2}{\lambda^{3}}\right)\left(\lambda^{2}+\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}+1\right)}{10N}\Biggr)     \end{aligned}\end{equation}

What do I do wrong?
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esdd
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There is an active \nonumber in the first line of the aligned environment. Delete this command to get an equation number.

Best regards
Elke

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