Investigation of the one-dimensional problem of nonlinear creep

A method of analyzing experimental creep curves of a nonlinear viscoelastic material to obtain relaxation curves is examined. It is assumed that the family of creep curves in question cannot be represented as a product of the stress function and a function of time. The investigation is carried out using the memory theory. The sum of the exponentials for curves not having a singularity at the start of the process is taken as the creep kernel [1]. A method of approximation by the sum of the exponentials is given. For processes with an initial singularity it is proposed to use the corresponding kernel, for which the resolvent is given.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 678–687, 1966     

Equations of three-dimensional deformation of linear viscoelastic media

An equation is proposed relating the stress and strain tensors in time for the three-dimensional deformation of linear viscoelastic media whose properties are determined by four parameters. A method is indicated for determining these parameters based on simple creep or relaxation tests. Values of the parameters are given for certain polymer materials. For such materials, there is an upper limit of the stress state below which an equilibrium limit state is possible. A creep kernel is proposed for the case of no equilibrium limit state, and a resolvent constructed with account for the variation of stress and strain in time.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 35–42, 1965     

Creep of polymer materials under periodically varying loads

A method is proposed for constructing the creep curves of a material whose nonlinear memory properties are described by Rozovskii's nonlinear integral equation [2] (with allowance for the stress dependence of the relaxation time) under given periodic loading from known creep curves recorded at constant stress. In deriving the theoretical relation certain simplifying assumptions are made (the creep strain accumulated in 1–2 cycles is small, no vibration [4–6]). An experimental check shows that the proposed method can be used to predict the behavior of a material under periodic loading with an accuracy sufficient for practical purposes.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 330–336, 1966     

Resolvent kernels that constitute an approximation of the identity and linear heat-transfer problems

Sufficient conditions are obtained for a Volterra integral equation whose kernel depends on an increasing parameter a to admit an approximation of the identity with respect to a in the form of a resolvent kernel. In this case, the solution of the integral equation tends to zero as a tends to infinity, and we establish estimates of this convergence in L. These results are used for obtaining estimates of the convergence of linear heat-transfer boundary conditions to Dirichlet ones as the heat-transfer coefficient tends to infinity.     

Generalized Sobolev's phi function for the resolvent of a Milne-type integral equation with a degenerate kernel

It is well known in the field of radiative transfer that Sobolev was the first to introduce the resolvent into Milne's integral equation with a displacement kernel. Thereafter it was shown that the resolvent plays an important role in the theory of formation of spectral lines. In the theory of line-transfer problems, the kernel representation in Milne's integral equation has been used to provide an approximate solution in a manner similar to that given by the discrete ordinales method.In this paper, by means of invariant imbedding we show how to determine an exact solution of a Milne-type integral equation with a degenerate kernel, whose form is more general than the Pincherle-Gourast kernel. A Cauchy system for the resolvent is expressed in terms of generalized Sobolev's Φ- and Ψ-functions, which are computed by solving a system of differential equations for auxiliary functions. Furthermore, these functions are expressed in terms of components of the kernel representation.     

Method of determining the volume and shear characteristics of elastico-viscous hereditary media from uniaxial-tension (compression) experiments

A method is proposed for determining the elastic constants — instantaneous modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio, shear modulus, bulk modulus, and the shear and volume influence functions — the shear creep kernel, the shear creep rate kernel, and the corresponding relaxation kernels from the data of creep or relaxation tests.Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 4, pp. 754–758, July–August, 1969.     

聚氯乙烯接近玻璃化转变温度时的蠕变行为研究

利用动态力学分析仪,详细研究了小应力作用下聚氯乙烯（PVC）接近玻璃化转变温度（63℃）时的短期蠕变性能．根据Struik-Kohlrausch (SK)方程及Struik移位方法,分析了物理老化对PVC瞬时蠕变柔量的影响,并提出了基于多松弛机制的新模型定量描述初始蠕变柔量、松弛时间和形状因子．结果表明:SK方程虽可表征不同老化时间下PVC的蠕变性能,但通过Struik移位方法却无法获得理想的主曲线,且初始蠕变柔量、松弛时间、形状因子和蠕变率均受物理老化显著影响,并在双对数坐标下随老化时间呈明显的非线性变化;新模型不仅揭示了物理老化控制参量的演化规律,而且极好地预测了PVC在物理老化进程中的高温蠕变行为．     

Convergence of an initial-value method for Fredholm integral equations

A convergence theorem is established for a method of solving Fredholm integral equations due to Kalabaet al. To do this, an interpolation procedure is developed for obtaining an approximation of the resolvent kernel. The results of Anselone and Moore on collectively compact operators are then applied to show convergence.This work was partially supported by UNLV Grant No. 001-060-4573.     

N-group neutron transport theory: A criticality problem in slab geometry

The steady-state equation for N-group neutron transport in slab geometry is written as an integral equation. A spectral analysis is made of the integral operator and related to the criticality problem. The method depends on a representation for the resolvent kernel for a subcritical slab and on analytic continuation in a complex parameter to characterize eigenvalues in terms of singularities of the resolvent. The analytic continuation is based on a bifurcation analysis of some nonlinear matrix integral equations whose solutions provide a matrix Wiener-Hopf factorization of the Fourier transform of the kernel of the transport operator.     

Effect of relaxation parameters on the behavior of rigid polymers in pure shear

The authors have investigated the effect of the relaxation parameters of a rigid polymer corresponding to the individual terms of the relaxation spectrum on the nature of the theoretical curves calculated for creep, strain relaxation and loading at constant strain rate in pure shear on the assumption that the stress-strain relation is described by the generalized Maxwell equation.Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 431–436, May–June, 1969.     

Creep on an initial small interval

The creep processes of hereditary media on a small initial interval are described, using as influence functions the resolvent functions for the generators of the Dirac function, which are employed as relaxation kernels. Equations are constructed for determining the instantaneous modulus and the parameters of these functions from experimental stress-strain diagrams obtained at three different constant loading rates.Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 945–950, September–October, 1970.     

Analysis of nonlinear polymer creep

The relaxation properties of polyethylene are analyzed. The nonlinear time-dependent stress-strain relations and the creep and relaxation equations are obtained from the experimental creep data. The analysis is based on an appropriate variant of the nonlinear memory theory with singular functions whose parameters, together with the modulus of elasticity, are determined by the method described in [1].Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 410–414, May–June, 1969.     

Creep and long-time strength of oriented glass-reinforced plastics in interlaminar shear

The creep and long-time strength in interlaminar shear and the creep in compression in the direction of the reinforcement have been experimentally investigated for certain types of oriented glass-reinforced plastics. The specimens in the interlaminar creep tests took the form of short beams loaded in bending. The experimental creep data for shear and compression are well described by the hereditary theory with a kernel of the Abel type (shear) or in the form of a Rabotnov function (compression). If the stresses are constant in time, good agreement with experiment is also given by Findley's form of the aging theory. A deformation criterion of interlaminar shear strength is also obtained. The experimental curves and values of the creep and long-time strength constants are presented.Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, pp. 1003–1012, November–December, 1971.     

System of generalized resolvent equations with corresponding system of variational inclusions

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new system of generalized resolvent equations with corresponding system of variational inclusions in uniformly smooth Banach spaces. We establish an equivalence relation between system of generalized resolvent equations and system of variational inclusions. The iterative algorithms for finding the approximate solutions of system of generalized resolvent equations are proposed. The convergence of approximate solutions of system of generalized resolvent equations obtained by the proposed iterative algorithm is also studied.      

Fractional differential equations and Lyapunov functionals

We consider a scalar fractional differential equation, write it as an integral equation, and construct several Lyapunov functionals yielding qualitative results about the solution. It turns out that the kernel is convex with a singularity and it is also completely monotone, as is the resolvent kernel. While the kernel is not integrable, the resolvent kernel is positive and integrable with an integral value of one. These kernels give rise to essentially different types of Lyapunov functionals. It is to be stressed that the Lyapunov functionals are explicitly given in terms of known functions and they are differentiated using Leibniz’s rule. The results are readily accessible to anyone with a background of elementary calculus.     

Resolvent convergence and spectral approximations of sequences of self-adjoint subspaces

This paper studies resolvent convergence and spectral approximations of sequences of self-adjoint subspaces (relations) in complex Hilbert spaces. Concepts of strong resolvent convergence, norm resolvent convergence, spectral inclusion, and spectral exactness are introduced. Fundamental properties of resolvents of subspaces are studied. By applying these properties, several equivalent and sufficient conditions for convergence of sequences of self-adjoint subspaces in the strong and norm resolvent senses are given. It is shown that a sequence of self-adjoint subspaces is spectrally inclusive under the strong resolvent convergence and spectrally exact under the norm resolvent convergence. A sufficient condition is given for spectral exactness of a sequence of self-adjoint subspaces in an open interval lacking essential spectral points. In addition, criteria are established for spectral inclusion and spectral exactness of a sequence of self-adjoint subspaces that are defined on proper closed subspaces.     

The resolvent structure of a Volterra equation with nonsummable difference kernel

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of the resolvent of a Volterra linear integral equation whose difference kernel is nonsummable. For a certain class of such kernels the equation is reducible to an equation whose difference kernel is summable. This enables one to use the well-known results on the structure of resolvents of summable kernels in the case of a nonsummable kernel. We apply the obtained results to homogeneous kernels of degree s-1.     

Computer approximation of families of curves of physically nonlinear creep of polymer materials

The determination of confidence intervals of deformations was studied for an individual measurement and arithmetical mean common for all points of an experimental family of curves. From the experimental data on the creep of polyamide resin and five different analytical equations of physically nonlinear creep, the problems of the computer approximation of families of creep curves and the determination of the material parameters are discussed. A method is proposed for a quantitative evaluation of the degree of correspondence of the initial data to the similarity of isochronous creep curves and the similarity of the creep curves.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 220–229, March–April, 1976.     

Quasi-periodic two-scale homogenisation and effective spatial dispersion in high-contrast media

The convergence of spectra via two-scale convergence for double-porosity models is well known. A crucial assumption in these works is that the stiff component of the body forms a connected set. We show that under a relaxation of this assumption the (periodic) two-scale limit of the operator is insufficient to capture the full asymptotic spectral properties of high-contrast periodic media. Asymptotically, waves of all periods (or quasi-momenta) are shown to persist and an appropriate extension of the notion of two-scale convergence is introduced. As a result, homogenised limit equations with none trivial quasi-momentum dependence are found as resolvent limits of the original operator family. This results in asymptotic spectral behaviour with a rich dependence on quasimomenta.     

Fixed points,Volterra equations,and Becker’s resolvent

Summary In a recent paper we derived a stability criterion for a Volterra equation which is based on the contraction mapping principle. It turns out that this criterion has significantly wider application. In particular, when we use Becker’s form of the resolvent it readily establishes critical resolvent properties which have been very illusive when investigated by other techniques. First, it enables us to show that the resolvent is L¹. Next, it allows us to show that the resolvent satisfies a uniform bound and that it tends to zero. These properties are then used to prove boundedness of solutions of a nonlinear problem, establish the existence of periodic solutions of a linear problem, and to investigate asymptotic stability properties. We also apply the results to a Liénard equation with distributed delay and possibly negative damping so that relaxation oscillations may occur.