
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Thermodynamics-based constitutive modeling of coupled dissipative
phenomena in engineering materials
H. Egner, W. Egner & M. Ry´s
Institute of Applied Mechanics, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
ABSTRACT: In the present paper a general phenomenological model, based on the irreversible thermody-
namics, is formulated and used to describe the multi-dissipative material under the assumption of small strains.
Two examples are presented: (1) modeling of thermo-plastic coupling in AISI ...