Maxwell models for viscoelastic flows are famous their potential to unify elastic motions of solids with viscous liquids in the continuum mechanics perspective. But usual allow one define well mostly one-dimensional only. To unequivocal multi-dimensional (as solutions well-posed initial-value problems) we advocated [ESAIM:M2AN 55 (2021), p. 807-831] an upper-convected model compressible a symme...

Cytoplasmic dynein is responsible for intra-cellular transport in eukaryotic cells. Using Fluctuating Finite Element Analysis (FFEA), a novel algorithm that represents proteins as continuum viscoelastic solids subject to thermal noise, we are building computational tools study the mechanics of these molecular machines. Here present methodology obtaining material parameters required represent fl...

In this contribution, we present a partitioned-domain method coupling particle domain and continuum for multiscale simulations of inelastic amorphous polymers under isothermal conditions. the domain, viscoelastic–viscoplastic constitutive model calibrated from previous molecular dynamics (MD) is employed to capture properties polymer. Due material's rate-dependence, temporal scheme introduced. ...

Asphalt pavement itself is a mixture made up of mainly aggregates, binders, and fillers that acts as a composition used for pavement construction. An experimental program was setup to determine the fatigue performance test of Asphalt with three different grades of conventional binders. Asphalt specimen has achieved the maximum optimum bulk density and air voids with a consistent bulk density of...

Many mechanical systems consist of continuum mechanical structures, having either linear or nonlinear elasticity or geometry, coupled to nonlinear oscillators. In this paper, we consider the class of linear continua coupled to mechanical pendula. In such mechanical systems, there often exist several natural time scales determined by the physics of the problem. Using a time scale splitting, we a...

A comprehensive experimental study performed under a combination of thermo-electro-mechanical loads applied to widely used electro-active polymer, is presented in the Part I this work (Mehnert et al., 2021). Soft polymeric materials, as base materials polymers, are highly susceptible temperature changes. Hence, thermal influences on their behavior have be investigated precisely. Constitutive mo...