Maxwell Material - Effect of A Sudden Deformation

Effect of A Sudden Deformation

If a Maxwell material is suddenly deformed and held to a strain of, then the stress decays with a characteristic time of .

The picture shows dependence of dimensionless stress upon dimensionless time :

If we free the material at time, then the elastic element will spring back by the value of

Since the viscous element would not return to its original length, the irreversible component of deformation can be simplified to the expression below:

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