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Approximate Solutions in Linear Viscoelasticity

Chang, Tse-Yung

UCB/SESM-1966/08, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1966-07, 58 pages (500/C23/66/08)

A numerical method of solution for viscoelastic stress analysis in the presence of thermal gradients is developed by utilizing a finite element idealization for spatial reduction and a finite difference approximation for time integration. Two examples are presented.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-66-08.pdf (4 MB)