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Fractional Calculus in Visco-Elasticity

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The fractional calculus is now popular in the engineering community because of its capability, especially to predict the visco-elastic response of the various materials in both time and frequency domain. In the present paper results of the research group of Palermo, in this setting, are briefly summarized.

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Acknowledgements

The authors fully acknowledge all the research group of Palermo, for the precious and fruitful cooperation during the studies on fractional visco-elasticity: G. Alotta, E. Bologna, A. Burlon, A. Di Matteo, G. Failla, D. Fiandaca, F. Lo Iacono, C. Masnata, G. Navarra, F. P. Pinnola, S. Russotto, M. Zingales.

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Di Paola, M., Pirrotta, A. (2022). Fractional Calculus in Visco-Elasticity. In: Rega, G. (eds) 50+ Years of AIMETA. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94195-6_16

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