Abstract
An exposition is presented of a phenomenological theory of dielectric relaxation. A brief review is given of the existing procedures for finding the distribution function of the dielectric relaxation times. A procedure is suggested for determining the distribution of the relaxation times of polymer materials from an experimentally measured current-decay function by means of the numerical solution of an integral equation on a computer.
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Institute of the Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 348–353, March–April, 1976.
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Shtraus, V.D. Determination of the distribution function of the dielectric relaxation times of polymer materials. Polymer Mechanics 12, 303–308 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856470
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856470