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A thermoelasticity theory for elastic materials with voids is formulated. This theory includes the heat-flux among the constitutive variables and assumes an evolution equation for the heat-flux. A class of mixed initial boundary value problems is defined and the uniqueness is established.
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Dhaliwal, R.S., Wang, J. A heat-flux dependent theory of thermoelasticity with voids. Acta Mechanica 110, 33–39 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01215413
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01215413