Shape memory polymers (SMPs), as a class of programmable stimuli-responsive shape
changing polymers, are attracting increasing attention from the standpoint of both …

The literature on thixotropy modeling is reviewed, with particular emphasis on models for
yield stress materials that possess elasticity. The various possible approaches that have …

This work presents new developments in the thermomechanical constitutive modeling of
shape memory alloys (SMAs). The proposed phenomenological constitutive model is …

In classical constitutive models such as the Navier-Stokes fluid model, and the Hookean or
neo-Hookean solid models, the stress is given explicitly in terms of kinematical quantities …

In this paper, we develop a thermodynamic approach for modeling a class of viscoelastic
fluids based on the notion of anevolving natural configuration'. The material has a family of …

In this paper we study tumor growth within the framework of Continuum Mechanics,
considering a tumor as a specific case of a growing soft tissue. Using the notion of multiple …

A formulation of elastic–plastic theory for rate independent materials is described, based on
the use of thermodynamic potentials. The four energy functions commonly used in …

The second part of this two-part paper summarizes work on the micromechanical modeling
of polycrystalline shape memory alloys (SMAs). Averaging micromechanics methods based …

A thermomechanical description of the martenstitic phase transformation and the associated
shape memory effect in polycrystalline shape memory alloys (SMAs) is presented. The rate …

Understanding the elastoplastic deformation of metals and geomaterials, including the
constitutive description of the materials and analysis of structure undergoing plastic …