Despite the tremendous impact that a good constitutive relation for the response of arterial
tissues can have with regard to advances in cardiovascular science and medicine, and …

Many real fluids exhibit response characteristics that cannot be satisfactorily described by
the classical Navier–Stokes fluid model and such fluids are referred to as non-Newtonian …

The chapter starts with overview of the derivation of the balance equations for mass,
momentum, angular momentum and total energy, which is followed by a detailed discussion …

There seems to be a basic misconception in several recent papers concerning the material
symmetry of bodies in configurations that are pre-stressed. In this short paper we point to the …

Nonlinear micropolar continuum model allows to describe complex micro-structured media,
for example, polycrystals, foams, cellular solids, lattices, masonries, particle assemblies …

In this short paper I present an alternate way of describing fluids in general, and the Navier–
Stokes fluid in particular, from a phenomenological point of view, that shows clearly that the …

In order to understand nonlinear responses of materials to external stimuli of different sort,
be they of mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, or of optical nature, it is useful to have at …

In this short note, we develop a new class of “quasi-linear” viscoelastic models wherein the
linearized strain is expressed in terms of a nonlinear measure of the stress. The class of …

We derive a class of thermodynamically consistent variants of Maxwell/Oldroyd-B type
models for incompressible viscoelastic fluids. In particular, we study the models that allow …

A quasi-linear viscoelastic relation that stems from an implicit viscoelastic constitutive body
containing a crack is considered. The abstract form of the response function is given first in L …