Thermodynamics of Materials with Memory

From the reviews: "Modern technology has evolved many material properties leading to memory for which a unifying description seems impossible. The book under review attempts to provide such a unifying description. It presents detailed accounts on the mechanics and thermodynamics of materials with memory, including properties of the dynamical equations which describe their evolution in time under varying loads. ... The book presents a wealth of information on materials with memory and it will attract a wide readership from academia." (K. N. Shukla, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1237, 2012)

• Introduction to Continuum.-Materials with Constitutive Equations That Are Local in Time.- Principles of Thermodynamics.- Free Energies and the Dissipation Principle.-Thermodynamics of Materials with Memory.-A Linear Memory Model.- Viscoelastic Solids and Fluids.- Heat Conductors.- Free Energies on Special Classes of Material.- The Minimum Free Energy.-Representation of the Minimum Free Energy in the Time Domain.- Minimum Free Energy for Viscoelastic Solids, Fluids, and Heat Conductors.- The Minimum Free Energy for a Continuous-Spectrum Material.- The Minimum Free Energy for a Finite-Memory Material.- A Family of Free Energies.- Properties and Explicit Forms of Free Energies for the Case of Isolated Singularities.- Free Energies for Nonlocal Materials.- Existence and Uniqueness.- Controllability of Thermoelastic Systems with Memory.- The Saint-Venant Problem for Viscoelastic Materials.- Exponential Decay.- Semigroup Theory for Abstract Equations with Memory.- Identification Problems for Integrodifferential Equations.- Dynamics of Viscoelastic Fluids.- A Conventions and Some Properties of Vector Spaces.- References.- Index.