The split between remodelling and aging

Abstract: After drawing a distinction between anelastic evolution and aging, it is shown that for certain solid classes a canonical decomposition of any symmetry-preserving evolutive process into an anelastic-like component and an aging component can be achieved. The theory thus obtained can be regarded as the time-like counterpart of the theory of inhomogeneities in functionally graded bodies. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]