A Free Energy Functional for Thermorheologically Simple Materials,

Abstract

A systematic procedure developed by Coleman for establishing thermodynamically consistent constitutive equations is used to develop the thermomechanical constitutive equations for thermorheologically simple viscoelastic materials. The usefulness of the procedure is demonstrated and the exact form of the equations discussed and compared with results obtained by considering phenomenological models. Results from both approaches are shown to be essentially equivalent. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 11, 1971
Accession Number
AD0720291

Entities

People

  • Thomas L. Cost

Organizations

  • University of Alabama in Huntsville

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Constitutive Equations
  • Contracts
  • Cooperation
  • Differential Equations
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Equations Of State
  • Free Energy
  • Materials
  • Mathematics
  • Partial Differential Equations

Readers

  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.