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The complex effective moduli of viscoelastic materials can be experimentally measured by a number of techniques giving relaxation data for materials at discrete frequencies. In this paper we present a method which allows one to find bounds on the moduli of the material at the unmeasured frequencies. Our bounds can be very tight, and are, therefore, good approximations to the data. Using our bounds, experimentalists can concentrate their efforts on gathering highly accurate data at only a few frequencies and numerically generate data at other frequencies that may be of interest.
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Received: 10 August 1999 Accepted: 21 December 2000
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Eyre, D., Milton, G. & Lakes, R. Bounds for interpolating complex effective moduli of viscoelastic materials from measured data. Rheol. Acta 41, 461–470 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003970100172
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003970100172