Mechanics of Visco-Elastic Media and Bodies

Assessment of linearity and characterization of nonlinear behaviour (general lecture).- On the foundations of the theory of non-linear viscoelasticity.- Un principe de correspondance pour les corps viscoélastiques lineaires viellisants.- Representation theorems and approximations in mechanics of viscoelastic ageing media (Abstract).- Small-amplitude vibrations in prestrained viscoelastic solids.- Visco-elastic properties of a medium permeated by viscous fluid-filled cavities.- Nonlinear effects on the propagation of discontinuities of all orders in viscoelastic media.- Determination of the initial slope of the stress relaxation function of non-linear viscoelastic materials using composites.- Viscoelastic waves in particulate composites.- Evolution of the finite pulses propagating in visco-elastic media due to nonlinear, viscous and thermal effects.- Opérateurs matriciels en visco-élasticité lineaire avec vieillisement, et application aux structures viscoélastiques hétérogènes.- Hypthèse des variables internes et viscoelasticité non-lineaire: étude du cas particulier d'une seule variable interne tensorielle.- Analysis of a pre-stressed heterogeneous structure made of visco-elastic materials.- Non-linear constitutive equations of viscoelastic bodies.- Visco-elastic polar media.- Visco-elastic states for polyphase bodies.- Analysis of features and properties of physical nonlinearity in visco-elastic behaviour.- Hölder stability in linear anisotropic viscoelasticity.- Constitutive equations for anelastic materials at finite strains.- Inhomogeneity in materially uniform linear viscoelastic bodies.- Generalized variational methods in linear viscoelasticity.- The generalization of the finite element method for the solution of visco-elastic two-dimensionalproblems.- Convergence of finite element solutions in viscoelasticity.- Permanent memory materials with semi-elastic range.- Crack propagation in viscoelastic diaspastically non-simple solids.- Destruction influence on the mechanical behaviour of polymers.- Creep rupture phenomena in creep buckling.- A non-linear model of creep-fatigue damage cumulation and interaction.- On failure conditions in visco-elastic media and structures.- Vibrations of compound rods with participation of viscoelastic properties of concrete.- On Hill's estimate of stationary creep rate.- Thermo-viscoelasticity (general lecture).- Thermal effects in viscoelasticity due to thermo-mechanical coupling.- On nonequilibrium thermodynamics of viscoelasticity: inelastic potentials and normality conditions.