Abstract: A simple nonlinear theory of viscoelasticity has been developed for application to elastomers. The theory is the viscoelastic generalization of the kinetic theory of rubber elasticity, and it ...

Abstract: The effective moduli are derived for a composite material containing platelet-type inclusions. The platelets are taken to be randomly oriented in three-dimensional space and to have so large a ...

Abstract: It is shown that there is a coordination between the numbers of the elastic properties and the numbers of the failure criteria parameters for aligned fiber composites under certain realistic ...

Abstract: A derivation is given of a particular form of the isothermal nonlinear stress constitutive relation for materials with fading memory. This particular derivation results in a form for the ...

Abstract: The Boltzmann constitutive representation is shown to provide a consistent means of incorporating dispersion effects into the mathematical modeling of wave behavior in layered elastic media. ...

Abstract: Symmetry conditions are found that assure isotropy of the fourth rank tensor of elastic moduli. Crystallography provides the answer to this problem in the two-dimensional context, namely one ...

Abstract: Analytical solutions are presented for two separate modes of deformation of an infinite elastic spherical wedge. In part, these solutions take the form of the stresses on the boundaries of the ...

Abstract: The mechanics of polymers offers a variety of emerging technical problems ranging from basic properties characterization to simulation of complex manufacturing operations. Of particular importance ...