Maxwell material

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A Maxwell material is the most simple model viscoelastic material showing properties of a typical liquid. It shows viscous flow on the long timescale, but additional elastic resistance to fast deformations. [1] It is named for James Clerk Maxwell who proposed the model in 1867. [2] [3] It is also known as a Maxwell fluid.

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Definition

Diagram of a Maxwell material Maxwell diagram.svg
Diagram of a Maxwell material

The Maxwell model is represented by a purely viscous damper and a purely elastic spring connected in series, [4] as shown in the diagram. If, instead, we connect these two elements in parallel, [4] we get the generalized model of a solid Kelvin–Voigt material.

In Maxwell configuration, under an applied axial stress, the total stress, and the total strain, can be defined as follows: [1]

where the subscript D indicates the stress–strain in the damper and the subscript S indicates the stress–strain in the spring. Taking the derivative of strain with respect to time, we obtain:

where E is the elastic modulus and η is the material coefficient of viscosity. This model describes the damper as a Newtonian fluid and models the spring with Hooke's law.


In a Maxwell material, stress σ, strain ε and their rates of change with respect to time t are governed by equations of the form: [1]

or, in dot notation:

The equation can be applied either to the shear stress or to the uniform tension in a material. In the former case, the viscosity corresponds to that for a Newtonian fluid. In the latter case, it has a slightly different meaning relating stress and rate of strain.

The model is usually applied to the case of small deformations. For the large deformations we should include some geometrical non-linearity. For the simplest way of generalizing the Maxwell model, refer to the upper-convected Maxwell model.

Effect of a sudden deformation

Dependence of dimensionless stress upon dimensionless time under constant strain Maxwell deformation.PNG
Dependence of dimensionless stress upon dimensionless time under constant strain

If a Maxwell material is suddenly deformed and held to a strain of , then the stress decays on a characteristic timescale of , known as the relaxation time. The phenomenon is known as stress relaxation.

The picture shows dependence of dimensionless stress upon dimensionless time :

If we free the material at time , then the elastic element will spring back by the value of

Since the viscous element would not return to its original length, the irreversible component of deformation can be simplified to the expression below:

Effect of a sudden stress

If a Maxwell material is suddenly subjected to a stress , then the elastic element would suddenly deform and the viscous element would deform with a constant rate:

If at some time we released the material, then the deformation of the elastic element would be the spring-back deformation and the deformation of the viscous element would not change:

The Maxwell model does not exhibit creep since it models strain as linear function of time.

If a small stress is applied for a sufficiently long time, then the irreversible strains become large. Thus, Maxwell material is a type of liquid.

Effect of a constant strain rate

If a Maxwell material is subject to a constant strain rate then the stress increases, reaching a constant value of

In general


Dynamic modulus

Relaxational spectrum for Maxwell material Maxwell relax spectra.PNG
Relaxational spectrum for Maxwell material

The complex dynamic modulus of a Maxwell material would be:

Thus, the components of the dynamic modulus are :

and

The picture shows relaxational spectrum for Maxwell material. The relaxation time constant is .

Blue curvedimensionless elastic modulus
Pink curvedimensionless modulus of losses
Yellow curvedimensionless apparent viscosity
X-axisdimensionless frequency .


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