Our times can be characterized by, among many other attributes, the seemingly increasing
speed of everything. Within science, it has led to the publication explosion, which reflects the …

Recent advances in the development of implicit constitutive relations to describe the
response of both solids and fluids have greatly increased the repertoire of the modeler in his …

Viscoelastic rate-type fluid models involving the stress and frame-indifferent time derivatives
of second order, like those in Burgers' model, are used to describe the complicated …

The need to describe abrupt changes or response of nonlinear systems to impulsive stimuli
is ubiquitous in applications. Also the informal use of infinitesimal and infinite quantities is …

We used the Laplace transform method to investigate the time periodic pulse electroosmotic
flow (EOF) of linear viscoelastic fluids through a circular microchannel driven by pulse …

In this short note, we develop a new class of “quasi-linear” viscoelastic models wherein the
linearized strain is expressed in terms of a nonlinear measure of the stress. The class of …

The aim of this paper is to develop an implicit constitutive for the thermoviscoelastic behavior
of polymers, based on a thermomechanical framework. The core idea is to assume that the …

The response of physical systems governed by linear ordinary differential equations to step
input is traditionally investigated using the classical theory of distributions. The response of …

In a recent article, Narayan et al.[Narayan, SPA, et al., 2012b. Nonlinear viscoelastic
response of asphalt binders: experimental study of relaxation of torque and normal force in …

The response of mechanical systems composed of springs and dashpots to a step input is of
eminent interest in the applications. If the system is formed by linear elements, then its …