Newton s viscosity law

These relationships are known as Newton s Law of viscous flow a is termed the fluidity and -q the dynamical shear viscosity. Newton s Law is analogous to Hooke s Law, except shear strain has been replaced by shear strain rate and the shear modulus by shear viscosity. As shown later, this analogy is often very important in solving viscoelastic problems. In uniaxial tension, the viscous equivalent to Hooke s Law would be a=7] ds/dt), where q is the uniaxial viscosity. As v=0.5 for many fluids, this equation can be re-written as <7-=3Tj(de/dO using t7=t /[2(1+v)], the latter equation being the equivalent of the interrelationship between three engineering elastic constants, (fi=E/[2il + v)]). 

The theory of hydrodynamics similarly describes an ideal liquid behavior making use of the viscosity. Newton s law suggests that in this case the stress is directly proportional to the rate of strain and independent of the strain. The... 

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