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SOME RESULTS ON THE LEAST WORK NEEDED TO PRODUCE A GIVEN STRAIN IN A GIVEN TIME IN A VISCOELASTIC MATERIAL AND A UNIQUENESS THEOREM FOR DYNAMIC VISCOELASTICITY
( Hertford College Oxford )
This paper begins by deriving some properties of the least work needed to produce a given strain in a given time in a linear viscoelastic material using processes starting from the virgin state. The results derived are then employed in proving a uniqueness theorem for the mixed dynamic problem of inhomogeneous and anisotropic linear viscoelasticity.