Notice of Retraction: Thermoviscoelastic difference model of viscoelastic damper subjected to cyclic loading conditions

Abstract

With the assumption of isothermal process, an efficient thermoviscoelastic difference model which has an extra advantage of using test data by dynamic thermomechanical anal ysis directly, has been developed to deal with thermomechanical coupling problems under steady-state cyclic loading conditions. By comparison, the assumption of isothermal process per circle is accurate enough for this model. This difference model is verified by experiments and shows a reasonable agreement with measured data.