Abstract
Breuer and Onat [24] considered the following question: what is the maximum amount of work recoverable from a body that has undergone a specified strain history? They found that the answer for linear viscoelastic memory materials is provided by the solution of an integral equation of Wiener–Hopf type, which is in fact a special case of the result given in Section 5.2. They gave a detailed solution by elementary means for a material with relaxation function in the form of a finite sum of decaying exponentials. The nonuniqueness problem was also explicitly exposed by these authors [25].
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Amendola, G., Fabrizio, M., Golden, J.M. (2012). The Minimum Free Energy. In: Thermodynamics of Materials with Memory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1692-0_10
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