Tommaso Ruggeri

Beyond additive decomposition in Rational Extended Thermodynamics: A coupled model for one-dimensional nonlinear viscoelasticity

We develop a one-dimensional isothermal model of nonlinear viscoelasticity within Rational Extended Thermodynamics (RET) without postulating an additive decomposition of either the stress or the internal energy. The total stress is taken as an independent field and is associated...