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Area of Science:

  • Solid Mechanics
  • Materials Science
  • Rheology

Background:

  • Assessing the long-term stability of viscoelastic structures is complex.
  • Existing theoretical tools for predicting viscoelastic instabilities are limited, necessitating reliance on numerical simulations.
  • Creep in viscoelastic solids can occur without leading to catastrophic instability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a more intuitive and theoretically grounded approach for predicting the stability of viscoelastic solids.
  • To simplify the analysis of future stability by reducing it to static calculations.
  • To elucidate the mechanisms behind delayed instability in viscoelastic materials.

Main Methods:

  • Describing viscoelastic solids using a temporally evolving instantaneous reference metric.
  • Measuring elastic strains with respect to this evolving metric.
  • Applying the developed framework to analyze thin elastomeric shells.

Main Results:

  • The proposed metric-based description simplifies the prediction of viscoelastic stability for incompressible solids.
  • The approach effectively reduces complex dynamic stability problems to static calculations.
  • Quantitative agreement was achieved between the model's predictions and experimental observations of delayed instability.

Conclusions:

  • The novel metric-based approach offers a powerful and intuitive tool for analyzing viscoelastic stability.
  • This method overcomes limitations of current predictive tools, enabling accurate forecasting of material behavior.
  • The study provides significant insights into the phenomenon of delayed instability in viscoelastic structures.