Modeling of materials sensitive to the type of rheological processes (Q2724037)

The authors consider materials obeying nonlinear Maxwell rheological models with process type sensitivity. In other words the inelastic part of the strain rate has the same form of Boltzmann's statistical law but the material constants for creep and relaxation processes are different as well as the activation energy. Clearly, the Boltzmann constant must be the same in both cases. The elastic part of the strain rate follows Hooke's law in its differential form and the total strain rate is the sum of its constituents.NEWLINENEWLINE The one-dimensional Maxwell-Gurevich model being the special case of the mentioned evolution equation is discussed in detail for both creep and relaxation. For polyethylene of high density by making use of inflexion points two sets of material constants for creep and relaxation are identified by experimental results of A. F. Kregers and M. P. Kyllents [Mech. Composite Mater. 2, 195--201 (1985) (in Russian)]. Finally, with such material constants a numerical procedure with simultaneous backward relaxation and forward creep is applied to a very simple example of pure bending of a cantilever beam. It is shown that the difference between strains of process sensitive and process insensitive materials amounts to 41 percents.