Abstract
The stress–strain relationships derived in Chap. 4 pertain to elastic materials that respond immediately to the load applied. Viscous materials also resist loading but undergo strain with a time lag. For such viscoelastic systems, the stress at a particular time depends on the strain rate in addition to the strain itself. Viscoelastic materials exhibit several important characteristics, including creep, stress relaxation, hysteresis, and stiffness that depends on the strain rate. These characteristics are explained in the context of several standard models with applications to biological tissues.
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Gould, P.L., Feng, Y. (2018). Viscoelasticity. In: Introduction to Linear Elasticity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73885-7_10
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