Mathematical Problems in Engineering 
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 90672, 21 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/90672
Research Article

A Mixture Theory for Micropolar Thermoelastic Solids

C. Galeş

Faculty of Mathematics, University of Iaşi, Iaşi 700506, Romania

Received 5 August 2007; Accepted 12 November 2007

Recommended by J. Richard Barber

Abstract

We derive a nonlinear theory of heat-conducting micropolar mixtures in Lagrangian description. The kinematics, balance laws, and constitutive equations are examined and utilized to develop a nonlinear theory for binary mixtures of micropolar thermoelastic solids. The initial boundary value problem is formulated. Then, the theory is linearized and a uniqueness result is established.