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Nonlinear Constitutive Laws in ViscoelasticityDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1 The theory of viscoelasticity appears to play a central role in the description of materials which exhibit time dependent stress—strain behavior. Various materials like polymers, some soft biological tissues, and various foods have been already successfully modeled as nonlinear viscoelastic materials.The literature in these application areas is replete with different, seemingly unconnected nonlinear viscoelastic models. The aim of the present paper is to review the classical nonlinear viscoelastic models and provide a unifying framework using the continuum mechanics formalism.
Key Words: nonlinear viscoelasticity continuum mechanics mathematical modeling
This version was published on October
1, 2007 Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Vol. 12, No. 5,
475-501 (2007) This article has been cited by other articles:
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