A phenomenological constitutive model for the nonlinear viscoelastic responses of biodegradable polymers

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 287-305

  Khan, Kamran A ^a   El Sayed, Tamer ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR CYLINDERS; ARTERIAL WALL; BIODEGRADABLE STENTS; CONTACT ANALYSIS; CYCLIC LOADINGS; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; DEGRADATION PROCESS; ENTROPY PRODUCTION; FINITE DEFORMATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE; GENERALIZED MAXWELL MODEL; INNER CYLINDER; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; LOADING CONDITION; LOCAL STATE; MECHANICAL LOADING; NONLINEAR VISCO-ELASTIC; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SCALAR FIELDS; STRESS REDUCTION; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TIME-DEPENDENT RESPONSE; TIME-SCALES; VISCOELASTIC RESPONSE; VISCOELASTIC SOLIDS;

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CREEP; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DEGRADATION; ENTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STENTS;

LOADING;

EID: 84873410727     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00707-012-0760-7     Document Type: Article

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