Considering viscoelastic saturated soil, The transient dynamic response of an elastic pile is studied. The pile-soil system is divided into thin layers, the control equations of the soil are solved respectively by using Laplace transform. Considering the mixed boundary-value conditions at the interface of pile and soil, expression is derived to describe the relationship between the inner force ...

Hyaluronic acid (HA or hyaluronan) is a natural, high molecular weight, linear polysaccharide composed of alternating N-acetyl glucosamine and glucuronic acid disaccharide units. HA is ubiquitous in human and animal tissues. It is found in the vitreous body, in the extracellular matrix of soft connective tissues, and in the synovial fluids. By supplementing the body’s level of glycosaminoglycan...

In 1,2 or 3 dimensions a scalar wave excited by a non-negative source in a viscoelastic medium with a non-negative relaxation spectrum or a Newtonian response or both combined inherits the sign of the source. The key assumption is a constitutive relation which involves the sum of a Newtonian viscosity term and a memory term with a completely monotone relaxation kernel. In higher-dimensional spa...

The role of internal stresses energy is usually neglected when crystallization kinetics is considered. The common argument is that stress is relaxing too fast to affect the process. In this article we develop a generalized formalism to describe steady-state growth kinetics in viscoelastic media. The residual stress energy results from interplay between the rate of stress development (due to the...

We propose two models for pattern formation in early embryogenesis. The first deals with patterns in motile mesenchymal cells; the second treats patterns in epithelial sheets. In the mesenchymal model, cells exert tractions which deform the extracellular matrix within which they move. This in turn affects their motion. The model field equations are formulated and analysed, and applied to two wi...

We present a second-order finite-difference scheme for viscoelastic flows based on a recent reformulation of the constitutive laws as equations for the matrix logarithm of the conformation tensor. We present a simple analysis that clarifies how the passage to logarithmic variables remedies the high-Weissenberg numerical instability. As a stringent test, we simulate an Oldroyd-B fluid in a lid-d...

The composition of fibers and matrix is great importance in several fields engineering, such as steel reinforcement concrete for civil engineering or lightweight applications the automotive aviation industry, it allows combining advantages both materials. If bond between ideally strong enough, mechanical deformation can be assumed to equal With this assumption we set up a phase field model evol...

the effect of temperature on the viscoelastic behavior of chicken meat frankfurters was assessed by creep recovery tests. compression creep-recovery tests were performed at room temperature (20°c) and refrigeration (5°c) on samples of cylindrical shape. the viscoelastic behavior of samples was characterized based on the parameters of the four-element burgers model. during the compression phase,...

The analysis of viscoelastic materials is one of the most important subjects in engineering structures. Several works have been so far made for the integral equation methods to viscoelastic problems. From the basic assumptions of viscoelastic constitutive equations and weighted residual techniques, a simple but effective Boundary Element (BE) formulation is developed for the Kelvin viscoelastic...

The rheological properties of four different Kuwaiti crude oils in the presence of polyacrylamide (PAA) were investigated. PAA was varied at three different concentrations of 25, 50, and 75 ppm to study the viscoelastic properties in the untreated samples. Four different temperatures (25, 30, 35, and 40 °C) were used to evaluate different viscoelastic parameters of the treated and untreated Kuw...