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Kelvin-Voigt material

Kelvin-Voigt material noun: the simplest kind of viscoelastic material, with typical rubbery properties, being purely elastic on long timescales but with additional resistance to fast deformation.

Noun

Kelvin-Voigt material (plural Kelvin-Voigt materials)

  1. The simplest kind of viscoelastic material, with typical rubbery properties, being purely elastic on long timescales but with additional resistance to fast deformation.
    Synonyms:
    Voigt material

Synonyms of Kelvin-Voigt material

Forms of Kelvin-Voigt material

pluralKelvin-Voigt materials

Origin of Kelvin-Voigt material

The model was developed independently by the British physicist Lord Kelvin in 1865 and by the German physicist Woldemar Voigt in 1890.

Questions about Kelvin-Voigt material

What does Kelvin-Voigt material mean?
Kelvin-Voigt material means the simplest kind of viscoelastic material, with typical rubbery properties, being purely elastic on long timescales but with additional resistance to fast deformation.
What part of speech is Kelvin-Voigt material?
Kelvin-Voigt material is a noun.
What is the plural of Kelvin-Voigt material?
The plural of Kelvin-Voigt material is Kelvin-Voigt materials.

Words near Kelvin-Voigt material in the dictionary

  1. Kelvin wave
  2. Kelvin waves
  3. Kelvin-Joule effect
  4. Kelvin-Joule effects
  5. Kelvin-Stokes theorem
  6. Kelvin-Voigt material
  7. Kelvindale
  8. Kelvinhaugh
  9. kelvins
  10. Kelvinside
  11. Kelvinverse

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