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Statistical mechanics of viscoelasticity

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A unified treatment of viscoelasticity is developed in the framework of non-equilibrium classical statistical mechanics. An exact correspondence between Mori's continued-fractions formalism and rheological circuits is shown.

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Bavaud, F. Statistical mechanics of viscoelasticity. J Stat Phys 46, 753–775 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01013384

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