The local entropy balance has nonnegative production, with heat supply and thermodynamic entropy flux at positive temperature . Its integral version holds on every material reference subvolume.
Use the material-first nominal stress tensor convention , with the deformation gradient. For any fixed reference material subvolume with outward unit normal , conservation of energy is
Here is body force per mass, is heat supply per mass and is nominal heat flux. Using momentum conservation to remove the kinetic energy balance gives the integral Lagrangian internal energy balance:
The integral Lagrangian entropy inequality is
where is temperature and is the thermodynamic entropy flux.
Since the subvolume is arbitrary, the divergence theorem gives
Expand and eliminate the heat supply between these relations. The Clausius-Duhem inequality becomes
Under the usual local constitutive independence assumptions, the reversible mechanical and thermal variations can have either sign. The Coleman-Noll procedure therefore imposes
Define the thermodynamic force conjugate to an internal variable by . The energy balance and the remaining entropy constraint now give, respectively,