A Nonlinear Theory of Viscoelasticity for Application to Elastomers

A simple nonlinear theory of viscoelasticity has been developed for application to elastomers. The theory is the viscoelastic generalization of the.

A simple nonlinear theory for the viscoelastic behavior of elastomers is developed here, one which has a mathematically con- sistent treatment of the time- ...

A nonlinear viscoelasticity theory for nematic liquid crystal elastomers

Early continuum viscoelastic models for nematic elastomers applied the dissipation principle to develop the equations of motions for the ...

Christensen, R. (1980) A Nonlinear Theory of Viscoelasticity for ...

Christensen, R. (1980) A Nonlinear Theory of Viscoelasticity for Application to Elastomers. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 47, 762-768.

A Nonlinear Theory of Viscoelasticity for Application to Elastomers

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A nonlinear viscoelasticity theory for nematic liquid crystal elastomers

In this work, we develop a nonlinear viscoelasticity theory for the large deformation behavior of monodomain nematic elastomers that can describe the mechanisms ...

A nonlinear viscoelasticity theory for nematic liquid crystal elastomers

... viscous mesogen rotation and viscoelastic network deformation. The theory is specialized to the case of a homogeneous director field and applied to ...

A nonlinear viscoelasticity theory for nematic liquid crystal elastomers

In this work, we developed a theory for the large deformation viscoelastic behavior of monodomain nematic elastomers that separately incorporates the ...

Long term prediction of nonlinear viscoelastic creep behaviour of ...

Elastomers have great industrial applications. Their physical properties ... It uses the kinetic theory of rubber elasticity as a starting point for ...

Application of viscoelasticity to nonlinear analyses of circular and ...

Abstract. Time-dependent dissipative behaviors of circular and spherical dielectric elastomer (DE) membranes were investigated, and viscoelastic models ...

Nonlinear Dynamical Model of a Soft Viscoelastic Dielectric Elastomer

When subjected to an ac voltage, a dielectric elastomer (DE) exhibits complicated nonlinear vibration, implying significant applications for ...

A new nonlinear viscoelastic model and mathematical solution of ...

We developed an innovative material nonlinear viscoelastic model with physical mechanism and mathematical solution to improve existing ones.

Nonlinear viscoelasticity of strain rate type: an overview - PMC

Modelling of viscoelastic response of materials with limiting strain is yet another scientific phenomena, which can be seen as an application of nonlinear ...

The nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of a carbon‐black‐filled elastomer

From these experimental results, it is shown that an existing viscoelasticity theory for an unfilled system when specialized to uniaxial extensions has a ...

Two-scale mechanism-based theory of nonlinear viscoelasticity

[22] proposed a two-scale theory of nonlinear viscoelasticity for unfilled and filled cross-linked elastomers, and the tube model was modified ...

Application of nonlinear viscoelastic models to describe ligament ...

... elastic and viscous nonlinear behavior well. The utility of ... Christensen, R.M.: A nonlinear theory of viscoelasticity for application to elastomers.

A variational constitutive framework for the nonlinear viscoelastic ...

DEs are highly viscoelastic and their actuation response is greatly affected in dynamic applications. We used the generalized Maxwell model to ...

Nonlinear elasticity and viscoelasticity

Nonlinear elasticity and viscoelasticity are very active areas of research in the group, both in terms of the mathematical apparatus and the application of the ...

Nonlinear Viscoelastic Solids—A Review - A. Wineman, 2009

Elastomers and soft biological tissues can undergo large deformations and exhibit time dependent behavior that is characteristic of nonlinear viscoelastic ...

Origin of Nonlinear Viscoelasticity in Filled Rubbers - OUCI

... elastomers: synthesis, structure-property relationship, compounding ... viscoelasticity/damage model with application to swirl-mat composites. Int J ...