THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS

     TEORIJSKA I PRIMENJENA MEHANIKA  2008 Vol.35(1-3), pp.235-254

Summary: 

Paolo Maria Mariano

Mechanics of complex bodies: Commentary
on the unified modeling of material substructures

Basic issues of the general model-building framework of the mechanics of complex bodies are discussed. Attention is focused on the representation of the material elements, the conditions for the existence of ground states in conservative setting and the
interpretation of the nature of the various balance laws occurring.