Mechanics of complex bodies: commentary on the unified modelling of material substructures
arXiv:0803.3763 · doi:10.2298/TAM0803235M
Abstract
Basic issues of the general model-building framework of the mechanics of complex bodies are discussed. Attention is focused on the representation of the material elements, the conditions for the existence of ground states in conservative setting and the interpretation of the nature of the various balance laws occurring.
14 pages, in print on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2008