Download or read book Crack and Contact Problems for Viscoelastic Bodies written by G.A.C. Graham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main emphasis of these Lecture Notes is on constructing solutions to specific viscoelastic boundary value problems; however properties of the equations of viscoelasticity that provide the theoretical underpinnings for constructing such solutions are also covered. Particular attention is paid to the solution of crack and contact problems. This work is of interest in the context of polymer fracture, modelling of material behaviour, rebound testing of polymers and the phenomenon of hysteretic friction.