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In this work we study a quasi-static evolution of thermo-visco-elastic model with homogeneous thermal expansion. We assume that material is subject to two kinds of mechanical deformations: elastic and inelastic. Inelastic deformation is related to a hardening rule of Norton–Hoff-type. Appearance of inelastic deformation causes transformation of mechanical energy into thermal one, hence we also take into the consideration changes of material’s temperature. The novelty of this paper is to take into account the thermal expansion of material. We are proposing linearization of the model for homogeneous thermal expansion, which preserves symmetry of system and therefore total energy is conserved. Linearization of material’s thermal expansion is performed in definition of Cauchy stress tensor and in heat equation. In previous studies, it was done in different way. Consideration of such linearization leads to system where the coupling between temperature and displacement occurs in two places, i.e. in the constitutive function for the evolution of visco-elastic strain and in the additional term in the heat equation, in comparison to models without thermal expansion. The second coupling was not considered previously. For such system of equations we prove the existence of solutions. Moreover, we obtain existence of displacement’s time derivative, which has not been done previously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider the quasi-static evolution of thermo-visco-elastic material. The main goal of this paper is to present how taking into account the additional effects may improve the result of solutions' existence. We added a micropolarity effect to thermo-visco-elastic model regarding Norton-Hoff-type constitutive function. This additional phenomenon improves the regularity of solution. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our research is directed to a quasi-static evolution of the thermo-visco-elastic model. We assume that the material is subject to two kinds of mechanical deformations: elastic and inelastic. Moreover, our analysis captures the influence of the temperature on the visco-elastic properties of the body. The novelty of the paper is the consideration of the thermodynamically consistent model to describe this kind of phenomena related with a hardening rule of Norton–Hoff type. We provide the proof of existence of solutions to thermo-visco-elastic model in a simplified setting, namely the thermal expansion effects are neglected. Consequently, the coupling between the temperature and the displacement occurs only in the constitutive function for the evolution of the visco-elastic strain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]