Constitutive Assumptions


Following John Ball and Richard James [1], [2], microstructures are the result of energy minimization and strain compatibility.

The basics of this theory are;


References

Some references are

  1. ``Fine phase mixtures as minimizers of energy.'' by John M. Ball and Richard D. James. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 100, 13 (1987).

  2. ``Proposed experimental tests of a theory of fine microstructure and the two-well problem.'' by John M. Ball and Richard D. James. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 338, 389 (1992).


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