AE 529
Viscoelasticity Theory

Credit: 4 hours.


Fundamental concepts of viscoelasticity with applications: elastic-viscoelastic analogies, creep and relaxation functions, thermomechanical reciprocity relations, variational principles, model fitting, shear center motion, thick-walled cylinders under pressure and inertia loads with material annihilation, sandwich plates, propagation of viscoelastic waves, vibration of bars, plates and shells, nonlinear elastic-viscoelastic analogy, properties of nonlinear viscoelastic stress-strain laws, creep rupture, and torsion of nonlinear bars and shells. Same as TAM 529. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.