In this work, we consider dynamic frictionless contact with adhesion between a viscoelastic body of the Kelvin-Voigt type and a stationary rigid obstacle, based on the Signorini’s contact conditions. Including the adhesion processes modeled by the bonding field, a new version of energy function is defined. We use the energy function to derive a new form of energy balance which is supported by n...

The microscopic structure of a plant cell wall is given by cellulose microfibrils embedded in a cell wall matrix. In this paper we consider a microscopic model for interactions between viscoelastic deformations of a plant cell wall and chemical processes in the cell wall matrix. We consider elastic deformations of the cell wall microfibrils and viscoelastic Kelvin–Voigt type deformations of the...

Weak solutions and blow-up for wave equations of p-Laplacian type with supercritical sources" (2015). This paper investigates a quasilinear wave equation with Kelvin-Voigt damping, u t t − ∆ p u − ∆u t = f (u), in a bounded domain Ω ⊂ R 3 and subject to Dirichlét boundary conditions. The operator ∆ p , 2 < p < 3, denotes the classical p-Laplacian. The nonlinear term f (u) is a source feedback t...

In this paper, we apply the thermodynamic framework recently put into place by Rajagopal and co-workers, to develop rate-type models for viscoelastic fluids which do not possess instantaneous elasticity. To illustrate the capabilities of such models we make a specific choice for the specific Helmholtz potential and the rate of dissipation and consider the creep and stress relaxation response as...

Strain-rate-based damping is investigated in the strong form of intrinsic equations three-dimensional geometrically exact beams. Kelvin–Voigt damping, often limited literature to linear or two-dimensional beam models, generalized case, including rigid-body motions. The result an elegant infinite-dimensional description beams that facilitates theoretical analysis and sets baseline for any chosen...