Comments on Some Recent Advances in Thermomechanics

Abstract

The manner in which the thermomechanics of materials with fading memory can be developed from the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, without using the Clausius-Duhem inequality, is outlined. It is shown how many of the results which are often claimed to be derivations from Coleman's formulation of the thermomechanics of simple materials with fading memory are, in fact, well-known classical results. Some of these results stem from the fact that the materials considered by Coleman possess instantaneous elasticity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0773125

Entities

People

  • Ronald Rivlin

Organizations

  • Lehigh University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Constitutive Equations
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Elastic Materials
  • Energy
  • Entropy
  • Equations
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Irreversible Processes
  • Materials
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanics
  • Military Research
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Thermodynamics
  • Thermomechanics

Readers

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