Time Dependence in Material Properties: An Overview Page 1 Mechanics of Time-Dependent
Materials 1: 3–31, 1997. 3 c 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands …

Mechanically tough and self-healable polymeric materials have found widespread
applications in a sustainable future. However, coherent strategies for mechanically tough …

A book of 420 pages with the simple title Rheology, written in 2006, that's intriguing! After an
introduction and a literature survey (citing many of the classical works on fluid mechanics …

An efficient and accurate numerical method of interconversion between linear viscoelastic
material functions based on a Prony series representation is presented and tested using …

The glass transition is well known to glass makers or from the common ex perience of drying
a used chewing gum. A liquid melt or a rubber becomes a solid glass when its temperature …

In conventional polymer materials, mechanical performance is traditionally engineered via
material structure, using motifs such as polymer molecular weight, polymer branching, or …

The following sections are included: Advances in Mathematical Modelling Dynamics of
Dilute Polymer Solutions The Rouse model Dumbbell models Closure Approximations …

Polyamides serve as matrix material for fiber reinforced composites and are widely applied
in many different engineering applications. In this context, they are exposed to various …

It is well known that the relaxation spectrum characterizing the linear viscoelastic properties
of a polymer melt or solution is not directly accessible by an experiment. Therefore, it must …

Different approaches to the mathematical modeling of viscoelastic dampers are addressed
and their theoretical basis and performance are compared. The standard mechanical model …