The pounding tuned mass damper (PTMD) is a novel vibration control device that can be used for many different structures. The PTMD utilizes a viscoelastic delimiter to enhance its vibration control effectiveness and robustness though pounding between the tuned mass and the viscoelastic material. However, the viscoelastic material is subjected to repeated poundings during its service life, which...

We calculate the transverse velocity fluctuations correlation function of a linear and homogeneous viscoelastic liquid by using a generalized Langevin equation (GLE) approach. We consider a long-ranged (power-law) viscoelastic memory and a noise with a long-range (power-law) auto-correlation. We first evaluate the transverse velocity fluctuations correlation function for conventional time deriv...

Micrometer-sized magnetic wires are used to study the mechanical properties of human mucus collected after surgery. Our work shows that has property a high viscosity gel characterized by large spatial viscoelastic heterogeneities.

A stochastic model corresponding to a simplified Hookean dumbbells viscoelastic fluid is considered, the convective terms being disregarded. Existence on a fixed time interval is proved provided the data are small enough, using the implicit function theorem and a maximum regularity property for a three fields Stokes problem.

Differential group delay measurements of a fiber-based dispersion compensation module under different controlled temperature variations experience long birefringence relaxation times (>10  h) in response to temperature changes. These are interpreted here qualitatively with a stress strain behavioral model based on silica's viscoelastic property.

We study the shearing motion of a slab consisting of an incompressible nonlinearly viscoelastic material of diierential type. We describe reasonable general constitutive restrictions that ensure that the strain is bounded during any motion lasting a nite length of time. We brieey sketch how this simple property, which is easily veriied, ensures that the governing initial-boundary-value problems...

The mechanical behavior of blood vessels is known to be viscoelastic rather than elastic. The functional role of viscoelasticity, however, has remained largely unclear. The hypothesis of this study is that viscoelasticity reduces the stresses and strains in the vessel wall, which may have a significant impact on the fatigue life of the blood vessel wall. To verify the hypothesis, the pulsatile ...