A Brief Review of Some Approaches to Hysteresis in Viscoelastic Polymers

Abstract

We give a brief review of hysteresis in viscoelastic polymers. The efforts surveyed range from phenomenological to molecular modelling with applications involving recent efforts on elastomers to biotissue.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 27, 2008
Accession Number
ADA477337

Entities

People

  • H. Thomas Banks

Organizations

  • North Carolina State University

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Composite Materials
  • Computations
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Continuous Spectra
  • Differential Equations
  • Elastomers
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Hysteresis
  • Inverse Problems
  • Materials
  • Molecules
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Polymers
  • Relaxation Time
  • Stress Strain Relations
  • Wave Propagation

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  • Polymer Science and Technology