“…On the other side, a differential‐integral equation system with boundary and initial values is converted into a series of recursive boundary value problems that can be solved by well‐developed numerical techniques such as FEM. - By virtue of the proposed algorithm, the instantaneous elastic and long‐time critical loads can be determined in the static viscoelastic stability analysis, and the critical time can be evaluated in dynamic viscoelastic stability analysis. And, the static critical loads at short and long terms can be obtained directly by blocking the dashpot or vanishing rates.
- Numerical verification indicates that the proposed approach is capable of solving viscoelastic stability problems and can be expected as an efficient tool dealing with the problem that is difficult to be solved by analytical approach because of the more complex viscoelastic constitutive models and more complex boundary/initial conditions.
- As a by‐product, two analytical expressions are derived for the dynamic stability analysis of linear and Burgers models, respectively.Frankly, the work presented in this paper is a try of the expression technique in the linear viscoelastic stability analysis; actually, the proposed expression technique was employed for the nonlinear dynamic analysis, nonlinear viscoelastic analysis, and transient analysis of nonlinear heat transfer problems (Please see , Yang and Gao 2003); we do hope to extend our present and previous works to the nonlinear viscoelastic stability analysis, and make new contribution.
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