Journal of Applied Mathematics (Jan 2013)
Semiholonomic Second Order Connections Associated with Material Bodies
Abstract
The thermomechanical behavior of a material is expressed mathematically by means of one or more constitutive equations representing the response of the body to the history of its deformation and temperature. These settings induce a set of connections which can express local properties. We replace two of them by a second order connection and prove that the holonomity of this connection classifies our materials.