Representation of the constitutive equation of viscoelastic materials by the generalized fractional element networks and its generalized solutions

The generalized fractional element networks are presented in this paper. In order to extend the structure of the model solutions to the generalized function space and make it contain more physical meanings, the restriction on the parameters of the fractional element proposed by Schiessel et al. is eliminated and a "compatibility equation" is added. The discretization method for solving the inverse Laplace transform is used and developed. The generalized solutions of the model equations are given. At the same time the generalized fractional element network--Zener and Poyinting-Thomson models are discussed in detail. It is shown that all the results obtained previously about the models of single parameter with fractional order and the classical models with integer order can be contained as the special cases of the results of this paper.