Talk:Viscoelasticity

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Thermodynamic theory of polymer elasticity

Hi, guys, thanks for your contributions regarding the molecular origin of polymer viscoelasticity. This is a very important topic, but I do not believe it belongs to the viscoelasticity article. There are non-polymer materials that exhibit viscoelasticity. Many rubber-like substances can be considered perfectly elastic, etc. Thus, I moved your text to the new article Thermodynamic theory of polymer elasticity. Please work there.

Quasi-linear viscoelasticity

It would be nice if there was a section on the quasi-linear viscoelasticity. It is a very important topic when talking about the mechanical properties of soft tissues.71.199.128.182

Types of viscoelasticity: Volterra equation

What is called a Volterra equation here might be better discribed as a linear response. Reference to linear response function?

--Benjamin.friedrich 08:44, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Practical Applications?

It'd be nice if there was at least a brief section discussing practical applications, so that the novice having no idea what this stuff is could get a sense of it. (I'm such a novice, having seen a sheet of "VISCOELASTIC MATERIAL" in a craft shop and wondered what on earth it was. I still don't know, but the name is cool :-) )