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Kelvin–Voigt material

Kelvin–Voigt material

A Kelvin–Voigt material, also called a Voigt material, is a viscoelastic material having the properties both of elasticity and viscosity. It is named after the British physicist and engineer Lord Kelvin and after German physicist Woldemar Voigt.

Definition

The Kelvin–Voigt model, also called the Voigt model, can be represented by a purely viscous damper and purely elastic spring connected in parallel as shown in the picture.

If, instead, we connect these two elements in series we get a model of a Maxwell material.

Since the two components of the model are arranged in parallel, the strains in each component are identical:

where the subscript D indicates the stress–strain in the damper and the subscript S indicates the stress–strain in the spring. Similarly, the total stress will be the sum of the stress in each component:

From these equations we get that in a Kelvin–Voigt material, stress σ, strain ε and their rates of change with respect to time t are governed by equations of the form:

or, in dot notation:

where E is a modulus of elasticity andis theviscosity. The equation can be applied either to theshear stressornormal stressof a material.

Effect of a sudden stress

If we suddenly apply some constant stressto Kelvin–Voigt material, then the deformations would approach the deformation for the pure elastic materialwith the difference decaying exponentially:
where t is time andthe rate of relaxation. Conversely, the valueis known as theretardation time.
If we would free the material at time, then the elastic element would retard the material back until the deformation becomes zero. The retardation obeys the following equation:
The picture shows the dependence of the dimensionless deformationon dimensionless time. In the picture the stress on the material is loaded at time, and released at the later dimensionless time.

Since all the deformation is reversible (though not suddenly) the Kelvin–Voigt material is a solid.

The Voigt model predicts creep more realistically than the Maxwell model, because in the infinite time limit the strain approaches a constant:

while a Maxwell model predicts a linear relationship between strain and time, which is most often not the case. Although the Kelvin–Voigt model is effective for predicting creep, it is not good at describing the relaxation behavior after the stress load is removed.

Dynamic modulus

The complex dynamic modulus of the Kelvin–Voigt material is given by:

Thus, the real and imaginary components of the dynamic modulus are:

Note thatis constant, whileis directly proportional to frequency (where the apparent viscosity,, is the constant of proportionality).

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