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James Gardner Oldroyd
British mathematician
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theory of long molecule polymers
- In mechanics of solids: Viscoelasticity
…after the British applied mathematician James Gardner Oldroyd showed in 1950 how viscoelastic stress-strain relations of a memory type could be generalized to a flowing fluid. This requires that the constitutive relation, or rheological relation, between the stress history and the deformation history at a material “point” be properly invariant…
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