Walter Noll's trailblazing constitutive theory of material defects in smoothly uniform bodies is recast in the language of Lie groupoids and their associated Lie algebroids. From this vantage point the theory is extended to non-uniform bodies by introducing the notion of singular material distributions and the physically cognate idea of graded uniformity and homogeneity.
The registered version of this article, first published in Journal of Elasticity, is available online at the publisher's website: Springer, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10659-018-9693-2
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La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Journal of Elasticity, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Springer, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10659-018-9693-2
