# Engineering Mechanics

Proceedings Vol. 32 (2026)

ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2026

Copyright © 2026 Institute of Thermomechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

 

Frost M.
pages 1 - 9, full text

Advances in modern materials and manufacturing provide engineers with opportunities to pioneer innovative applications and redesign conventional concepts. Central to such an endeavor is a sound under- standing of complex (thermo)mechanical behavior, which must be translated into reliable constitutive models for high-fidelity computational simulations. This work highlights the advantages of the Generalized Stan- dard Materials framework—a systematic methodology that ensures a priori thermodynamic consistency and mathematical coherence, thereby offering a robust foundation for modeling advanced materials, where ad hoc approaches often prove inadequate.

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