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In this chapter the energy and entropy balance laws for a Cosserat continuum are presented. It is shown that the higher-order continuum introduces additional terms in the local dissipation of a system.
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Vardoulakis, I. (2019). Cosserat Continuum Energetics. In: Cosserat Continuum Mechanics . Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 87. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95156-0_6
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