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Constitutive relation for rheological processes: Properties of theoretic creep curves and simulation of memory decay

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We study the nonlinear stress-strain constitutive relation proposed earlier for describing one-dimensional isothermal rheological processes in the case of monotonous variation of the strain (in particular, viscoplasticity, creep, relaxation, plasticity, and superplasticity). This relation contains integral time operators of the strain and strain rate, which are the norms in the Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces equipped with special weight factors, one material function, and nine material parameters determined by the results of tests of the material for relaxation, creep, long-term strength, and constant-rate strain.

We analytically inverse the constitutive relation and study the properties of the inverse operator. We derive the equation of creep curves corresponding to an arbitrary law of loading at the stage of passing from the zero stress to a given constant level. We study their dependence on the material parameters and the loading stage characteristics and find restrictions on the material parameters which ensure that the asymptotic behavior of the creep curves for large times is independent of the length of the loading stage and the specific law of stress variation during this stage, i.e., we find the conditions of the model memory decay in creep. Thus we have proved that the constitutive relation proposed above can adequately model both creep and the effect of the material memory decay.

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Original Russian Text © A. V. Khokhlov, 2007, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Mekhanika Tverdogo Tela, 2007, No. 2, pp. 147–166.

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Khokhlov, A.V. Constitutive relation for rheological processes: Properties of theoretic creep curves and simulation of memory decay. Mech. Solids 42, 291–306 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0025654407020148

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