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Strain-Rate and Stress-Rate Models of Nonlinear Viscoelastic Materials

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  • Claudio Giorgi

    (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Ambiente Territorio Architettura e Matematica, Università di Brescia, Via Valotti 9, 25133 Brescia, Italy
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Angelo Morro

    (Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi, Università di Genova, Via All’Opera Pia 13, 16145 Genova, Italy
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the modeling of nonlinear viscoelastic materials. The constitutive equations are considered in differential form via relations between strain, stress, and their derivatives in the Lagrangian description. The thermodynamic consistency is established by using the Clausius–Duhem inequality through a procedure that involves two uncommon features. Firstly, the entropy production is regarded as a positive-valued constitutive function per se. This view implies that the inequality is in fact an equation. Secondly, this statement of the second law is investigated by using an algebraic representation formula, thus arriving at quite general results for rate terms that are usually overlooked in thermodynamic analyses. Starting from strain-rate or stress-rate equations, the corresponding finite equations are derived. It then emerges that a greater generality of the constitutive equations of the classical models, such as those of Boltzmann and Maxwell, are obtained as special cases.

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  • Claudio Giorgi & Angelo Morro, 2024. "Strain-Rate and Stress-Rate Models of Nonlinear Viscoelastic Materials," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(19), pages 1-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:12:y:2024:i:19:p:3011-:d:1486797
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