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General Dissipative Materials For Simple Histories, John Murrough Golden, G. Amendola, M. Fabrizio
General Dissipative Materials For Simple Histories, John Murrough Golden, G. Amendola, M. Fabrizio
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A material with memory typically has a set of many free energy functionals associated with it, all members of which yield the same constitutive relations. An alternative interpretation of this set is explored in the present work. Explicit formulae are derived for the free energy and total dissipation of an arbitrary material in the cases of step function and sinusoidal/exponential histories. Expressions for the fraction of stored and dissipated energy are deduced. Also, various formulae are given for discrete spectrum materials. For materials with relaxation function containing one decaying exponential, the associated Day functional is the physical free energy. For …