Viscoelasticity Defined Range of Material Behavior Solid Like-Liquid Like Ideal Solid----Most Materials-----/dea/Fluid Purely Elastic-Viscoelastic----Purely Viscous Viscoelasticity:Having both viscous and elastic properties Linear Viscoelasticity .The word viscoelastic means the simultaneous existence of viscous and elastic properties in a material. .It is not unreasonable to assume that all real materials are viscoelastic. .The response of a material to an experiment depends on the time-scale of the experiment in relation to a natural time of the material. .Initially,the restoring force increases linearly with the distance that any deformation takes the material away from its rest state,but eventually non-linearities will be encountered. The meaning and consequences of linearity The development of the mathem 11 Range of Material Behavior Solid Like ---------- Liquid Like Ideal Solid ----- Most Materials ----- Ideal Fluid Purely Elastic ----- Viscoelastic ----- Purely Viscous Viscoelasticity Defined Viscoelasticity : Having both viscous and elastic properties Linear Viscoelasticity •The word viscoelastic means the simultaneous existence of viscous and elastic properties in a material. •It is not unreasonable to assume that all real materials are viscoelastic. •The response of a material to an experiment depends on the time-scale of the experiment in relation to a natural time of the material. •Initially, the restoring force increases linearly with the distance that any deformation takes the material away from its rest state, but eventually non-linearities will be encountered