Viscoelasticity
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Viscoelasticity is the property of materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics when undergoing deformation. Viscous materials, like honey, resist shear flow and strain linearly with time when a stress is applied. Elastic materials strain instantaneously when stretched and just as quickly return to their original state once the stress is removed. Viscoelastic materials have elements of both of these properties and, as such, exhibit time-dependent strain. Whereas elasticity is usually the result of bond stretching along crystallographic planes in an ordered solid, viscosity is the result of the diffusion of atoms or molecules inside an amorphous material.
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See also
- Viscosity
- Elasticity
- Blood Viscoelasticity
- Viscoplasticity
- Bingham plastic
- Polymer
- Creep
- Stress relaxation
- Hysteresis
- Biomaterial
- Biomechanics
- Rubber Elasticity
- Rheology
- Glass transition
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