(1) Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska, NE. 68508 Lincoln, USA;(2) Department of Engineering Mechanics, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, P.O. Box 1-764, 70700 Bucharest, Romania
Abstract:
The equations describing the incremental response of a thermoelastic solid under pre-existing mechanical and thermal fields are derived. The associated differential system is shown to be self-adjoint. This property in turn is used to establish the equivalence of linear static and dynamic stability criteria.Received: 10 November 2002, Accepted: 6 January 2003, Published online: 23 April 2003E. Soós: deceased
