A series solution for the effective properties of incompressible viscoelastic media

AbstractThis paper presents a series solution for the homogenization problem of a linear viscoelastic periodic incompressible composite. The method uses the Laplace transform and the correspondence principle which are combined with the classical expansion along Neumann series of the solution of the periodic elasticity problem in Fourier space. The terms of the Neumann series appear as decoupled, containing geometry dependent terms and viscoelastic properties dependent terms which are polynomial fractions whose inverse Laplace transforms are provided explicitly