Kaye-Bernstein, Kearsley Zapas equation

Steady state shear viscosity and primary normal stress coefficient for low density polyethylene melt T and from the Kaye-Bernstein, Kearsley, Zapas (K-BKZ) equation wim the double exponential damping function, eq4.4.13 (solid lines) and with the single exponential, eq4.4.12 (dotted Une). Data at different temperatures have been shifted to one master curve by ar T). Replotted from Laun (1978). 

Additional complexity can he brought to the constitutive equation in its integral form. Indeed, the idea of rubber elasticity that is inherent to the Lodge model has been generalized by Kayes, Bernstein, Kearsley and Zapas [20-23] in a large class of constitutive equations. In a perfect body, the strain energy W may be linked to strain and stress by ... 

The K-BKZ Theory Model. The K-BKZ model was developed in the early 1960s by two independent groups. Bernstein, Kearsley, and Zapas (70) of the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) first presented the model in 1962 and published it in 1963. Kaye (71), in Cranfield, U.K., published the model in 1962, without the extensive derivations and background thermodynamics associated with the BKZ papers (82,107). Regardless of this, only the final form of the constitutive equation is of concern here. Similar to the idea of finite elasticity theory, the K-BKZ model postulates the existence of a strain potential function U Ii, I2, t). This is similar to the strain energy density function, but it depends on time and, now, the invariants are those of the relative left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor The relevant constitutive equation is... 

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