CVE 725 - Viscoelasticity

(2 credits)

Prerequisite: CVE 604. Modeling of continua as a viscoelastic material where stress and strain fields in deformable bodies are time and spatially dependent. Viscoelastic models include Maxwell fluids and Kelvin solids. Creep phenomena, stress relaxation, hereditary integrals, viscoelastic beams, beams on continuous supports, vibration, and wave propagation in viscoelastic materials are studied.