A numerical solution for the free convective, unsteady, laminar convective heat and mass transfer in a viscoelastic fluid along a semi-infinite vertical plate is presented. The Walters-B liquid model is employed to simulate medical creams and other rheological liquids encountered in biotechnology and chemical engineering. This rheological model introduces supplementary terms into the momentum c...

A Hadamard instability analysis of the partial differential equations governing a coupled thermo-mechano-chemical system predicts instability of the spinoidal decomposition type as well as instability of the "negative creep" type.

Viscoelasticity is a complex yet important phenomenon that drives material response at different scales of time and space. Burgeoning interest in nanoscale dynamic material mechanics has driven, and been driven by two key techniques: instrumented nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy. This review provides an overview of fundamental principles in nanoindentation, and compares and contrasts...

Temperature has an influence on damping characteristics of the viscoelastic damping structure. The change of the damping characteristics of the structure under the cycle load is a dynamic and coupled process. The hyperelastic-viscoelastic model was used to describe nonlinear deformation and viscoelasticity simultaneously. The temperature distribution and change of the damping characteristics un...

A unilateral contact problem without friction in quasi-coupled thermo-elasticity and with uncertain input data is analysed. The worst scenario method is used to nd the most "dangerous" admissible input data.

The theoretical sensitivity of Love wave and layer-guided shear horizontal acoustic plate mode ~SH-APM! sensors for viscoelastic guiding layers and general loading by viscoelastic materials is developed. A dispersion equation previously derived for a system of three rigidly coupled elastic mass layers is modified so that the second and third layers can be viscoelastic. The inclusion of viscoela...

Underground rock dynamic disasters are becoming more severe due to the increasing depth of human operations underground. temperature and pressure conditions contribute significantly these disasters. Therefore, it is important understand coupled thermo-mechanical (TM) behaviour rocks for long-term safety maintenance underground tunnelling mining. Moreover, investigation damage, strength failure ...