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Some Procedures for Obtaining the Short-Time Portion of Creep and Relaxation Functions of Linear Viscoelastic Materials

Sackman, Jerome L.; Kaya, Izak

UCB/SESM-1967/23, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-09-01, 28 pages (500/C23/67/23)

The analytical bases are given for the design of some experiments for the direct determination of the short-time portion of creep and relaxation functions of linear viscoelastic materials. These procedures should yield accurate results for very early times.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-67-23.pdf (1 MB)