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Viscoelasticity of Granular Materials

Maddalena, Francesco; Ferrari, Mauro

UCB/SEMM-1994/04, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1994-05, 23 pages

Formulates some general linear viscoelastic relations in terms of microstresses and microdeformations, deducing boundary value problems for the mictostresses and macrostresses. Links between constituitive equations governing the microscopic level and their macroscopic counterparts are formed.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-94-04.pdf (1 MB)