Stresses in mixture theory (Q2640367)

In the given paper an approach is presented which is based on a general definition of a force in continuum mechanics as an element of the cotangent bundle of an appropriate configuration manifold. The method is applied to the statics of mixtures. The forces on a mixture are defined as a continuous linear functional on the space of virtual displacements of the mixture. The existence of partial stresses is made without any further assumptions. Furthermore for a few examples of simple body models of a mixture the paper shows the relation between the partial stresses and the total stress.