Characteristic foliations of material evolution: from remodeling to aging

Abstract

For any body-time manifold $\mathbb{R}\times \mathcal{B}$ there exists a groupoid, called material groupoid, encoding all the material properties of the evolution material. A smooth distribution, the material distribution, is constructed to deal with the case in which the material groupoid is not a Lie groupoid. This new tool provides a unified framework to deal with general non-uniform evolution materials.