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By Mauro Fabrizio

Describes basic mathematical modeling of viscoelastic fabrics as platforms with fading reminiscence. Discusses the interrelation among themes akin to life, distinctiveness, and balance of preliminary boundary worth difficulties, variational and extremum ideas, and wave propagation. Demonstrates the deep connection among the houses of the answer to preliminary boundary price difficulties and the necessities of the final actual rules. Discusses specific concepts and new tools, together with Fourier and Laplace transforms, extremum rules through weight features, and singular surfaces and discontinuity waves.

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Exploitation of the Clausius-Duhem inequality. In order to outline a standard procedure in the thermodynamics of materials with memory and to establish a precise relationship among the Clausius inequality and the Clausius-Duhem inequality, now we examine the restrictions placed on a material with memory by the second law as expressed by the Clausius-Duhem inequality. For the sake of generality consider a material whose state a is the triplet (F^fl^g*) of the histories of F,0, and g. />, 77, S, q for the free energy, the entropy, the second Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor, and the heat flux.

A pair (cr, P) is said to be reversible if the reverse process P satisfies A process P which does not satisfy (a) and (b) is said to be irreversible. Borrowing from the physical terminology, we can phrase this definition by saying that a process is reversible if the state is even under time reversal while the dissipation is odd. For ease in writing, the state g(g((T, P), Pd-t) will be denoted by d(d — t). It is worth observing that the properties (a) and (b) involve the state and the dissipation at any time t in [0,d).

The linear viscoelastic solid. Linear (infinitesimal) viscoelasticity and especially the model of linear viscoelastic solid can be traced back to Boltzmann [7] who, roughly speaking, considered an elastic material with memory. He elaborated the model of (linear) viscoelastic solid on the basis of the following assumptions. At any (fixed) point X of the body, the stress at any time t depends upon the strain at all preceding times. If the strain at all preceding times is in the same direction, then the effect is to reduce the corresponding stress.

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