Here we summarize the calculation of Freund (1998), using his notation (in a special case when the surface energy does not depend on the angle ), and following schematics: Annotation 2020-04-03 092325

The starting point is the following expression of the total free energy of the body:

where is the bulk energy and is the surface energy, the latter being dependent on the restriction

of the deformation gradient to the unit tangent . The norm of , in particular, represents the tangential stretch. The goal of the calculation is to obtain the form

To arrive at , one follows two steps.

1) Taking the time derivative of both sides of , one obtains:

where is the normal velocity, and where

is the derivative of following the boundary. Introducing the bulk stress and the surface stress is defined by

we obtain

where is the curvature in the current configuration. Integrating by parts and using the divergence theorem, along with the boundary condition

yields with 1


and that

Thus, we have

Integrating over yields boundary terms and the desired term .


1 Observe that using force balance