An assessment of nonlinearly viscoelastic constitutive models for cyclic loading: The effect of a general loading/unloading rule

Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-300

  Xia, Zihui ^a   Shen, Xinghe ^a   Ellyin, Fernand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cyclic loading; Epoxy polymer; Loading unloading; Mean stress relaxation; Ratcheting strain; Viscoelastic constitutive model

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC LOADS; LOADING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STRAIN; UNLOADING;

EPOXY POLYMER; MEAN STRESS RELAXATION; RATCHETING STRAIN; VISCOELASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODEL;

VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 33744951266     PISSN: 13852000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11043-006-9004-3     Document Type: Article

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