Abstract:Abstract:Within the thermodynamic framework with internal variables, the classical Hamilton's principle for elastic bodies is extended to inelastic bodies composed of materials whose free energy densities are point functions of internal variables, or the so-termed Green-inelastic bodies, subject to finite deformation and non-conservative external forces. Yet this general result holds true even without the Green-inelasticity presumption under a more general interpretation of the infinitesimal internal rearrange… Show more
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