FABRIZIO , M.

The modelling of materials with memory is characterized by the process and the initial state. Because of the equivalence between histories, the state is identified with the response generated by the trivial process on the given initial strain. The process is the strain since the initial time. The occurrence of histories up to past infinity is...

First-order phase transitions are modelled by a non-homogeneous, time-dependent scalar-valued order parameter or phase field. The time dependence of the order parameter is viewed as arising from a balance law of the structure order. The gross motion is disregarded and hence the body is regarded merely as a heat conductor. Compatibility of the...