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When is a linear viscoelastic material elastic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

W. A. Day
Affiliation:
Hertford College, Oxford
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This note is concerned with those linear viscoelastic materials which are known to be compatible with thermodynamics in a sense to be denned below. It is proved that equality of its instantaneous and equilibrium elastic moduli is a necessary and sufficient condition for such a material to be elastic.

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Copyright © University College London 1971

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