Engineering Viscoelasticity

• Main Author: Gutierrez-Lemini, Danton (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Structural mechanics.; Fluid mechanics.; Structural materials.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Structural Mechanics.; Structural Materials.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

Engineering Viscoelasticity covers all aspects of the thermo- mechanical response of viscoelastic substances that a practitioner in the field of viscoelasticity would need to design experiments, interpret test data, develop stress-strain models, perform stress analyses, design structural components,...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamental Aspect of Viscoelastic Response
• Constitutive Equations in Hereditary Integral Form
• Constitutive Equations in Differential Operator Form
• Constitutive Equations for Steady-State Oscillations.- Structural Mechanics
• Temperature Effects.- Material Property Functions and Their Characterization
• Three Dimensional Constitutive Equations
• Isothermal Boundary-Value Problems
• Wave Propagation
• Variational Principles and Energy Theorems
• Appendix A–Mathematical Background
• Appendix B–Elements of Solid Mechanics.