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An elasto-plasticity model with coupled hardening variables of strain type is presented. In the theoretical framework of generalized associativity, the formulation of this model is based on the introduction of two hardening variables with a…
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The stability of the 1+1 dimensional solution of Israel-Stewart theory is investigated. Firstly, the evolution of the temperature and the ratio of the bulk pressure over the equilibrium pressure of the background is explored. Then the…
We investigate the initial-value problem for the incompressible tangential Navier-Stokes equation with variable viscosity on a given two-dimensional surface without boundary. Existence of global weak and strong solutions under inhomogeneous…
We consider the numerical treatment of one of the most popular finite strain models of the viscoelastic Maxwell body. This model is based on the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient, combined with Neo-Hookean…
By revisiting a model proposed in [45], we address the accretive growth of a viscoelastic solid at large strains. The accreted material is assumed to accumulate at the boundary of the body in an unstressed state. The growth process is…
A consistent stress-driven nonlocal integral model for nonisothermal structural analysis of elastic nano- and microbeams is proposed. Most nonlocal models of literature are strain-driven and it was shown that such approaches can lead toward…
We consider viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations on bounded domains. We prove comparison principles and a priori supremum bounds for the solutions. We also address the eigenvalue problem and, in many…