“…Recent interest in viscoelastic impact arose in modeling such diverse phenomena as dynamic response of biological soft tissues [4], hopping of a rover on an asteroid [5], fruit drop tests [6], impact of nanomanipulation of nanoparticles [7], kinetic energy dissipation in granular matter [8], seismic pounding [9], erosion [10], and protective performance of flexible polymer material [11]. It goes without saying that the case of linearly viscoelastic materials is a base case for more elaborate time-dependent material models such as poroviscoelasticity [12] and surface viscoelasticity [13].…”