US 20050032029A1

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(12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2005/0032029 A1
(43) Pub. Date:

Trunk
(54) METHOD OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL

Feb. 10, 2005

Publication Classi?cation

ANALYSIS OF VISCOELASTIC MATERIALS

FOR STRESS, STRAIN, AND DEFORMATION

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Int. Cl? ................................................... .. G09B 23/06

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US. Cl. ............................................................ ..434/300

(76) Inventor: Frank J. Trunk, Houston, TX (US)

Correspondence Address:
Mr. Frank J. Trunk
6436 Kentwick

Houston, TX 77084 (US)

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ABSTRACT

A method for solving any arbitrary multi-dimensional sci

enti?c or engineering design problem requiring solutions for
stress, strain and deformation, and Which therefore demands
the incorporation of a material constitutive equation into the

(21) Appl. No.:

09/915,388

(22) Filed:

Jul. 26, 2001

tion, Which quantitatively de?nes the relationship betWeen

stress and strain, incorporates independent tensor valued

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coef?cients and a scalar valued constitutive function/s, and

Where the values of the tensor valued coef?cients and the

(63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 09/438,120,

?led on Nov. 10, 1999, noW abandoned.

mathematical solution and Wherein that constitutive equa

form of the constitutive function/s is speci?c to any particu

lar material under consideration.

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