Configurational entropy, non-associativity and uniqueness in granular media

DOI10.1007/BF01176863MaRDI QIDQ684883zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date 16 September 1993

Published in Acta Mechanica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01176863

zbMATH Keywords

configurational strainsincremental uniqueness theoremmixed boundary-initial value problemplastic potentialplastic strainsyield surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermodynamics in solid mechanics (74A15) Theory of constitutive functions in solid mechanics (74A20) Plastic materials, materials of stress-rate and internal-variable type (74C99)

Review text

The paper deals with the inelastic response of granular media. Similar to the entropy concept in statistical physics, a configurational entropy measuring the probability of occurence of a particular configuration of grains is defined. This entropy gives rise to a configurational temperature which induces, in turn, configurational strains. Therefore inelastic strains consist of two parts: plastic strains and configurational strains. It is shown that the plastic strain is derivable from a plastic potential defined on the stress-space, hence it is normal to the constant potential (yield) surface whereas the inelastic strain violates this property. For a thermomechanically positive model which put a weak restriction on the increments of stress, strain, configurational entropy and temperature rates, an incremental uniqueness theorem is proved for a mixed boundary-initial value problem.

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