“…Thus, evolution of the distortion matrix A gives, in fact, exact evolution of the Burgers tensor, defining dynamics of dislocations [39,42,41]. The evolution equation of the distortion matrix coupled with mass, momentum and energy conservation, thus represents an Eulerian framework covering elastic and elasto-plastic solids as well as fluids, see also [77,17,78,85,4,14,23]. In practice, the transition between the elastic and plastic response of solids is governed by the dependence of the strain relaxation time on the state parameters, τ = τ (A, B, D, ρ, s), see details in [78,85,4,14,23].…”