Applications of an energy-momentum tensor in nonlinear elastodynamics: Pseudomomentum and Eshelby stress in solitonic elastic systems (Q687305)

In the previous works, the author showed that the unbalance of pseudo- momentum plays a basic role in the formulation of configuration forces and the path-independent integrals in the theory of elastic inhomogeneities and brittle fracture. This paper develops the theory to provide a fundamental conservation law for dispersive nonlinear elastic systems that govern elastic soliton solutions. The author treats pseudo- momentum and Eshelby stresses in grade one and grade two elastic materials, and considers conservations of pseudo-momenta for the sine- Gordon, Boussinesq, sine-Gordon-d'Alembert, and the generalized Zakharov systems.