Abstract
The theory of rate-independent processes has a large variety of applications in continuum mechanics of solids. Rate-independent effects typically can occur inside the bulk and at the surface or along interfaces. These effects may be unidirectional, as, for example, in damage, or bidirectional. In case of a deformable continuum, one can consider the general concept of large strains or confine oneself to small strains. There might be rate-independent processes on lower-dimensional objects, typically surfaces of codimension 1 or lines (as dislocations) of dimension 1. See Table 4.1 on p. 236 for examples that will be considered in this chapter. Of course, various processes can combine with each other.
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