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Abstract: The aim of this Note is to show that a class of anisotropic elastic-damage models including unilateral effects can be considered, for constant damage values, as non-linear and non-conservative elastic. The conservative character of corresponding constitutive models is related to the symmetry of the Hessian tensor. For the models under consideration, it is shown that the condition of conservativeness (existence of the elastic potential energy function) is obtained only when there is coaxiality of the strain and damage tensors. To cite this article: N. Challamel et al., C. R. Mecanique 334 (2006). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In this paper, we present a non-linear one-dimensional model for thin-walled rods with open strongly curved cross-section, obtained by asymptotic methods. A dimensional analysis of the non-linear three-dimensional equilibrium equations lets appear dimensionless numbers which reflect the geometry of the structure and the level of applied forces. For a given force level, the order of magnitude of the displacements and the corresponding one-dimensional model are deduced by asymptotic expansions. To cite this article: L. Grillet et al., C. R. Mecanique 332 (2004). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]