Tensorial formulation of mechanical constitutive equations is a very important matterin continuum mechanics. For instance, the space of elastic tensors is a subspace of 4thorder tensors with a natural SO(3) group action. More generaly, we have to study thegeometry of a tensor space defined on R 3 , under O(3) group action.To describe such a geometry, we first have to exhibit its isotropy classes, also namedsymetry classes. Indeed, each tensor space possesses a finite number of isotropy classes.In this present work, we propose an original method to obtain isotropy classes of a giventensor space. As an illustration of this new method, we get for the first time the isotropyclasses of a 8th order tensor space occuring in second strain-gradient ...