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Characterization of mechanical relaxation processes

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The experimental observation of power-law behaviour in the spectral response of dielectric relaxation has been extended to other relaxation processes, particularly mechanical loss. Examples of the power-law behaviour are given and summarized diagrammatically. It is shown that there is an essential difference between the magnitudes of the power-law exponents for mechanical and dielectric relaxation. A relationship between the two is proposed and shown to be experimentally valid.

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Hill, R.M. Characterization of mechanical relaxation processes. J Mater Sci 17, 3630–3636 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00752207

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