Viscoelasticity constitutive laws

Schaffer and Adams< 2) carried out a nonlinear viscoelastic analysis of a unidirectional composite laminate using the finite-element method. The nonlinear viscoelastic constitutive law proposed by Schapery<26) was used in conjunction with elastoplastic constitutive relations to model the composite response beyond the elastic limit. 

Note that with Eqs. 9.10, 9.12 and 9.14, we again have the viscoelastic constitutive law represented in the transform domain in a form equivalent to elasticity. These relationships will then allow us to utilize the correspondence principle as in Chapter 8 to solve 2D and 3D viscoelastic boundary value problems based on elasticity solutions. 

Using the separated forms of the creep compliance or relaxation modulus, the linear viscoelastic constitutive laws 10.13 and 10.14 may be rewritten as... 

The viscoelastic constitutive laws for stresses and strains with time derivatives of high orders are considered. The concept of masses of internal oscillators is introduced for the... 

In this chapter we analyse a wide class of equilibrium problems with cracks. It is well known that the classical approach to the crack problem is characterized by the equality type boundary conditions considered at the crack faces, in particular, the crack faces are considered to be stress-free (Cherepanov, 1979, 1983 Kachanov, 1974 Morozov, 1984). This means that displacements found as solutions of these boundary value problems do not satisfy nonpenetration conditions. There are practical examples showing that interpenetration of crack faces may occur in these cases. An essential feature of our consideration is that restrictions of Signorini type are considered at the crack faces which do not allow the opposite crack faces to penetrate each other. The restrictions can be written as inequalities for the displacement vector. As a result a complete set of boundary conditions at crack faces is written as a system of equations and inequalities. The presence of inequality type boundary conditions implies the boundary problems to be nonlinear, which requires the investigation of corresponding boundary value problems. In the chapter, plates and shells with cracks are considered. Properties of solutions are established existence of solutions, regularity up to the crack faces, convergence of solutions as parameters of a system are varying and so on. We analyse different constitutive laws elastic, viscoelastic. 

The viscoelastic contact problem for a plate with the constitutive law (see Section 1.1.4)... 

Analysis of these effects is difficult and time consuming. Much recent work has utilized two-dimensional, finite-difference computer codes which require as input extensive material properties, e.g., yield and failure criteria, and constitutive laws. These codes solve the equations of motion for boundary conditions corresponding to given impact geometry and velocities. They have been widely and successfully used to predict the response of metals to high rate impact (2), but extension of this technique to polymeric materials has not been totally successful, partly because of the necessity to incorporate rate effects into the material properties. In this work we examined the strain rate and temperature sensitivity of the yield and fracture behavior of a series of rubber-modified acrylic materials. These materials have commercial and military importance for impact protection since as much as a twofold improvement in high rate impact resistance can be achieved with the proper rubber content. The objective of the study was to develop rate-sensitive yield and failure criteria in a form which could be incorporated into the computer codes. Other material properties (such as the influence of a hydrostatic pressure component on yield and failure and the relaxation spectra necessary to define viscoelastic wave propagation) are necssary before the material description is complete, but these areas will be left for later papers. 

C. Guillope and J.-C. Saut, Existence results for the flow of viscoelastic fluids with a differential constitutive law. Nonlinear Anal., Th. Meth.. ppl., 15 (1990) 849-869. 

IIOJ. Baranger and D. Sandri, Finite element method for the approximation of viscoelastic fluid flow with a differential constitutive law. First European Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Bruxelles, 1992, C. Hirsch (ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993, 1021-1025. 

KC Valanis, S Chang. Stress wave propagation in a finite viscoelastic thin rod with a constitutive law of the hereditary type. In TC Huang, MW Johnson, eds. Developments in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. New York Wiley, 1965. 

The Maxwell Model. In the above development, discussion moves from elastic behavior to viscoelastic descriptions of material behavior. In a simple sense, viscoelasticity is the behavior exhibited by a material that has both viscous and elastic elements in its response to a deformation or load. In early days, this was often represented by elastic or viscous mechanical elements combined in different ways (9-12). The simplest models are two element models that contain a viscous element (dashpot) and an elastic element (spring). The dashpot is assumed to follow a Newtonian fluid constitutive law in which the stress is related directly to the strain rate by the following expression ... 

The Phenomenology of the Linear Theory of Viscoelasticity. One of the powers of the linear viscoelasticity theory is that it is predictive. The constitutive law that comes from Boltzmann superposition theory requires simply that the material functions discussed above be known for a given material. Then, for an arbitrary stress or deformation history, the material response can be obtained. In addition, the elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle can be used so that boundary value problems such as beam bending, for which an elastic solution exists, can be solved for linear viscoelastic materials as well. Both of these subjects are treated in this section. 

Boltzmann Superposition and the Constitutive Law for Linear Viscoelasticity. The underlying assumption of the Boltzmann superposition principle is that responses to loads or deformations applied to a material at different times are linearly additive. This set of assumptions leads to the constitutive laws of linear viscoelasticity theory which can be considered as a linear response theory. For discussion purposes, consider a Maxwell material that is subjected to a two-step deformation history. The history is such that a deformation yi = Ayi... 

Transient Response Creep. The creep behavior of the polsrmeric fluid in the nonlinear viscoelastic regime has some different features from what were found with the linear response regime. First, there are no ready means of relating the creep compliance to the relaxation modulus as was done in the linear viscoelastic case. In fact, the relationship between the relaxation properties and the creep properties depends entirely on the exact constitutive relationship chosen for the response of the material, and numerical inversion of the specific constitutive law is ordinarily necessary to predict creep response from the relaxation... 

Other Constitutive Modei Descriptions. The above work describes a relatively simple way to think of nonlinear viscoelasticity, viz, as a sort of time-dependent elasticity. In solid polymers, it is important to consider compressibility issues that do not exist for the viscoelastic fluids discussed earlier. In this penultimate section of the article, other approaches to nonlinear viscoelasticity are discussed, hopefully not abandoning all simplicity. The development of nonlinear viscoelastic constitutive equations is a very sophisticated field that we will not even attempt to survey completely. One reason is that the most general constitutive equations that are of the multiple integral forms are cumbersome to use in practical applications. Also, the experimental task required to obtain the material parameters for the general constitutive models is fairly daunting. In addition, computationally, these can be difficult to handle, or are very CPU-time intensive. In the next sections, a class of single-integral nonlinear constitutive laws that are referred to as reduced time or material clock-type models is disscused. Where there has been some evaluation of the models, these are examined as well. 

A. Drozdov, On Constitutive Laws for Aging Viscoelastic Materials at Finite Strains Eur. J. Mech. A—Solids 12, 305-324 (1993). 

The present section deals with the review and extension of Schapery s single integral constitutive law to two dimensions. First, a stress operator that defines uniaxial strain as a function of current and past stress is developed. Extension to multiaxial stress state is accomplished by incorporating Poisson s effects, resulting in a constitutive matrix that consists of instantaneous compliance, Poisson s ratio, and a vector of hereditary strains. The constitutive equations thus obtained are suitable for nonlinear viscoelastic finite-element analysis. 

The nonlinear constitutive law due to Schapery may be linearized by assuming that the nonlinearizing parameters 8 y d g2 have a value of unity. In addition, the stress-dependent part of the exponent in the definition of the shift function is set to zero. Consequently, the constitutive law reduces to the hereditary integral form commonly used to describe a linear viscoelastic material. 

Constitutive laws for viscoelastic materials are however more complex than the Hooke s law and consequently the number of parameters to identify increases. Frameworks could also be used to ensure that all parameters of the proposed laws are physically admissible. To do so, it is possible to use the thermodynamic of irreversible processes as the framework. Based on the concepts of continuum mechanics and irreversible thermodynamics, the Clausius-Duhem inequality is obtained for given problems where dissipation mechanisms are of importance, e.g., viscous deformation. Fundamental equations leading to a generic form of the Clausius-Duhem inequality have been well covered by many authors (Bazarov, 1964 Coussy, 2010 Lemaitre and Chaboche, 1990 Mase and Mase, 1999) and thus will be only summarized later in section 3. Based on the generic form of the Qausius-Duhem inequality, models or constitutive laws are further developed considering various assumptions closely related to materials of interest. 

In the following, we are motivated to develop a general nonlinear theory of viscoelasticity because, in the practical application of tire industry, mbber materials are used under conditions which do not comply with the infinitesimal deformation assumptions of the linear theory. For these materials, the range of deformation beyond which superposition and thereby linearity holds is extremely limited. Anyway, one of the first requirements for a nonlinear constitutive law is that, for a very small deformation, the model reduces to the corresponding linear model [120]. 

Drapaca CS, Sivaloganathan S, Tenti G (2007) Nonlinear constitutive laws in viscoelasticity. Math Mech Solids 12 475-501... 

Recall from Chapter 6 that the constitutive law describing the stress and strain relation of a viscoelastic material can be written as... 

The effects of a number of environmental factors on viscoelastic material properties can be represented by a time shift and thus a shift factor. In Chapter 10, a time shift associated with stress nonlinearities, or a time-stress-superposition-principle (TSSP), is discussed in detail both from an analytical and an experimental point of view. A time scale shift associated with moisture (or a time-moisture-superposition-principle) is also discussed briefly in Chapter 10. Further, a time scale shift associated with several environmental variables simultaneously leading to a time scale shift surface is briefly mentioned. Other examples of possible time scale shifts associated with physical and chemical aging are discussed in a later section in this chapter. These cases where the shift factor relationships are known enables the constitutive law to be written similar to Eq. 7.53 with effective times defined as in Eq. 7.54 but with new shift factor functions. This approach is quite powerful and enables long-term predictions of viscoelastic response in changing environments. 

In Chapter 6, it was shown that the Boltzman superposition principle could be used to derive an integral constitutive law for a linear viscoelastic material as... 

The Nagdi and Murch theory of viscoelastic-plasticity contains many of the same caveats as in plasticity theory and, in fact, reduces to the two limiting cases of plasticity for non-viscoelastic materials and linear viscoelasticity for non-yielded materials. The only portions needed here are the linear viscoelastic constitutive equations given in Chapter 6 and a generic failure law given by,... 

Similar to Laplace transforms, Fourier transforms also have special properties under differentiation and integration making them a very effective method for solving differential equations. Due to the form of the constitutive laws in viscoelasticity, Fourier transforms are quite useful in analysis of viscoelastic problems. 

Drapaca, C.S., Sivaloganathan, S. and Tenti, G. (2007) Nonlinear Constitutive Laws in Viscoelasticity. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 12,475-501. 

Since the matrix melt has both elastic and viscous properties, it can be described by a constitutive law of viscoelasticity. The non-linear Kelvin-Voigt equation is employed here... 

Earlier in the theory of viscoelasticity many rheological models with combinations of the Maxwell and the Voigt - Kelvin bodies were considered (see Freudental and Geiringer [1]). These models have constitutive laws for stresses o j and strains eij which include time derivatives of arbitrary order. 

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