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The decay of the energy in a viscoelastic body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

W. A. Day
Affiliation:
Hertford College, Oxford
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Consider a homogeneous linear viscoelastic filament, one of whose ends is held fixed, while the other is subjected to a given traction τ(t) (t ≤ 0). I shall prove first that the total energy E(t), which is the sum of the kinetic and free energies, its derivative E′(t), and the rate of working W(t) satisfy

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Research Article
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Copyright © University College London 1980

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