Viscoelastic behavior of mammalian DNA

Viscoelastic Behavior of Dental Amalgam *

Measure ments made on dent a l a malgam in tens ion indica te th at a malga m exhib its three types of vi scoelasti c phe nome na: (1) inst antaneous e las ti c s tra in , (2) re ta rded e las ti c st ra in (transie nt c reep), and (3) viscous s train (s teady state c reep). T he co mbina tion of e lasti c plus re ta rded strain can be repre· sent ed by a n eq uation of the form f = A(T + 8 '(J...

Calculation of tunnel behavior in viscoelastic rock mass

Wall displacements and ground pressure acting on the lining of a tunnel increase with time. These time-dependent deformations are both due to face advance effect and to the time-dependent behavior of the rock mass.  Viscoelastic materials exhibit both viscous and elastic behaviors. Thorough this study, the effect of different linear viscoelastic models including Maxwell, Kelvin and Kelvin-Voigt...

Linear viscoelastic behavior of subcutaneous adipose tissue.

Subcutaneous adipose tissue contributes to the overall mechanical behavior of the skin. Until today, however, no thorough constitutive model is available for this layer of tissue. As a start to the development of such a model, the objective of this study was to measure and describe the linear viscoelastic behavior of subcutaneous adipose tissue. Although large strains occur in vivo, this work o...

The orthotropic viscoelastic behavior of aortic elastin.

In this paper, we studied the viscoelastic behaviors of isolated aortic elastin using combined modeling and experimental approaches. Biaxial stress relaxation and creep experiments were performed to study the time-dependent behavior of elastin. Experimental results reveal that stress relaxation preconditioning is necessary in order to obtain repeatable stress relaxation responses. Elastin exhib...

Asymptotic Behavior of Linearized Viscoelastic Flow Problem