The post that was quoted here has been removedBut dealing with a viscoelastic boundary element method for analysing a polymer quasifracture, usually called a craze in polymers, isn't a little more sweat inducing? 😉
To put it in lay-mens' terms:-
A time-dependent boundary stiffness is considered on the quasifracture envelope surface. The viscoelastic property of the glassy polymer is represented by a generalised Kelvin model with multiple retardation times. According to the linear viscoelastic correspondence principle, the associated elasticity solution can be solved by applying the general integral boundary element method. Then the viscoelastic solution in the time domain can be obtained by applying a collocation Laplace inversion transformation. Using these methods, the quasifracture problem composed of an isolated craze opening with time-dependent stiffness traction in a stressed rectangular plate can be analysed.
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