...Mark Kachanov; Igor Sevostianov Rice’s internal variables formalism [1975, “Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Plasticity in Relation to Microscale Deformation Mechanisms,” in Constitutive Equations in Plasticity, edited by A. Argon, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 23–75] is one of the basic...

..., “Inelastic Constitutive Relations for Solids: An Internal Variable Theory and Its Application to Metal Plasticity,” J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 19, pp. 433–455) . It is shown that the thermodynamics of infinitesimally constrained equilibrium states belongs to linear irreversible thermodynamics. The coefficient...