cyclesestimates of efficiencyframe indifferencematerial symmetryone spatial dimensionthermoelasticity
Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids (74-02) Thermodynamics in solid mechanics (74A15) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Thermal effects in solid mechanics (74F05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to classical thermodynamics (80-02) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10)
The title is, in part, misleading, but the reader, even if attracted by expectations which might not be fulfilled, will not regret the attention given to the tract. The author proposes his comments on thermodynamics from the standpoint of thermoelasticity treated in one spatial dimension; within this restricted context, many tricky questions (frame indifference, material symmetry, etc.) are disposed of and the axioms laid down at the beginning (the balance laws, the existence of an entropy function, the heat flux postulate) are less (or not at all) controversial. Thus the Author can proceed to estimates of efficiency in cycles, a task to which three chapters are dedicated (efficiency within nonlinear and linearized thermoelasticity and in the homogeneous dissipationless case). Precise even if limited (but certainly nontrivial) results are obtained, which complement, clarify and put in perspective classical statements. A final chapter is devoted to deduce various versions of the second law from the accepted axioms. In all, this is a pleasing, elegant contribution (the Reviewer confesses reading it with the same gusto as it were a novel); it is addressed to a wide audience but could also be used as a text for part of a semester course in thermomechanics.
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- The efficiency of cycles of finite period
- The work done by a deformable heat conductor
- Reversible processes in the thermodynamics of continuous media
- The thermoelastic and viscoelastic contact of two rods
- The physics and mathematics of the second law of thermodynamics
- Thermodynamics based on a work inequality
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- Some considerations about thermodynamic cycles
- On formation of singularities in one-dimensional nonlinear thermoelasticity
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