A modified fractional-order thermo-viscoelastic model and its application to a polymer micro-rod heated by a moving heat source

Classical thermo-viscoelastic models may be challenged to predict the precise thermo-mechanical behavior of viscoelastic materials without considering the memorydependent effect. Meanwhile, with the miniaturization of devices, the size-dependent effect on elastic deformation is becoming more and more important. To capture the memory-dependent effect and the size-dependent effect, the present study aims at developing a modified fractional-order thermo-viscoelastic coupling model at the microscale...     

An internal-variable theory of thermo-viscoelastic constitutive relations at finite strain

Based on the nonequilibrium thermodynamic theory, a new thermo-viscoelastic relation at finite strain is proposed. Under the assumption that the specific heat at a fixed strain and fixed internal variables can be regarded as a constant, a new expression for the free energy which decouples the mechanical and the thermal effects is derived. Through an analysis of the mesoscopic deformation mechanism of solid polymers, a set of internal variables is introduced, and an internal-variable constitutive theory in thermo-viscoelasticity at finite strain is formulated. An explicit expression of a thermoviscoelastic constitutive relation is obtained for solid polymers in the case where their molecular network has a randomly oriented distribution function at reference configuration. Moreover, the relationship between the relaxation time and the temperature is also discussed. The viscoelastic constitutive theory proposed in reference is only a linear approximation of the present theory.     

辛体系下平面热黏弹性圣维南问题的解析解

借助积分变换,将辛体系引入平面热黏弹性问题,建立了基本问题的对偶方程,并将全 部圣维南问题归结为满足共轭辛正交关系的零本征值本征解问题. 同时,利用变量代换和本 征解展开等技术给出了一套求解边界条件问题的具体方法. 算例讨论了几种典型边界条件问 题,描述了热黏弹性材料的蠕变和松弛特征,体现了这种辛方法的有效性.