In this paper, we discuss the mechanics of anelastic bodies with respect to a Riemannian and a Euclidean geometric structure on the material manifold. These two structures provide two equivalent sets of governing equations that correspond to the geometrical and classical approaches to non-linear anelasticity. This paper provides a parallelism between the two approaches and explains how to go from one to the other. We work in the setting of the multiplicative decomposition of deformation gradient seen as a non-holonomic change of frame in the material manifold. This allows one to define, in addition to the two geometric structures, a Weitzenböck connection on the material manifold. We use this connection to express natural uniformity in a geometrically meaningful way. The concept of uniformity is then extended to the Riemannian and Euclidean structures. Finally, we discuss the role of non-uniformity in the form of material forces that appear in the configurational form of the balance of linear momentum with respect to the two structures.
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