Thermo-mechanical coupled incremental variational formulation for thermosetting resins subjected to curing process

This study presents an incremental variational formulation (IVF) for the thermo-mechanical problem of resin products subjected to curing, for which a dual dissipation potential (DDP) for the cure state is originally derived in conjunction with that for viscoelasticity. Following the thermodynamically consistent formulation for the time evolution equation of the degree of cure (DOC) of a thermosetting resin and the linear viscoelastic law, we...