Abstract
Complex materials, often encountered in recent engineering and material sciences applications, show no complete separations between solid and fluid phases. This aspect is reflected in the continuous relaxation time spectra recorded in cyclic load tests. As a consequence the material free energy cannot be defined in a unique manner yielding a significative lack of knowledge of the maximum recoverable work that can extracted from the material. The non-uniqueness of the free energy function is removed in the paper for power-laws relaxation/creep function by using a recently proposed mechanical analogue to fractional-order hereditariness.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3156-3167 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | International Journal of Solids and Structures |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 18 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2014 |
Keywords
- Dissipation rate
- Fractional derivatives
- Free energy
- Material state
- Power-law creep/relaxation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanics of Materials
- Materials Science(all)
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Applied Mathematics
- Modeling and Simulation