“…Many advanced processes in engineering such as high-speed metal forming (Rojek et al, 2001), cutting (Miguélez et al, 2009;Molinari et al, 2010;Ma et al, 2012), crash in energy absorbing structures (Reyes et al, 2002;Rusinek et al, 2008) or impact on metallic plates (Rosenberg and Dekel, 2004;Rodríguez-Martínez et al (2010a,b)) involve large strains at high strain rates. In these conditions, the thermodynamic process deviates from the isothermal state and approaches adiabaticity, leading to large and sometimes very rapid variations in the temperature field.…”