Reciprocal and variational principles in micropolar thermoelasticity of type II

Abstract

In the present paper, in the context of thermoelasticity of type II (or thermoelasticity without energy dissipation), we establish reciprocal and variational principles of convolutional type for inhomogeneous and anisotropic micropolar thermoelastic materials with a center of symmetry. The results obtained in this work tend to generalize other variational principles (previously proved by the authors) not completely characterizing the initial-boundary value problem in concern.