Abstract

The concept of internal constraints is extended to gradient materials. Here, interesting constraints can be introduced, such as pseudorigid ones. The stresses and the hyperstresses will be given by constitutive equations only up to reactive parts, which do no work during any compatible motion of the body. For the inclusion of thermodynamical effects, the theory is generalized to the case of thermomechanical constraints. Here one obtains reactive parts of the stresses, heat flux, entropy, and energy, which do not contribute to the dissipation. Some critical remarks on the classical concept of internal constraints are finally given. A method to introduce internal constraints in a natural way is described to overcome some conceptual deficiencies of the classical concept.

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