On the Physical Meaning of Time-Domain Constitutive Models with Complex Parameters (original) (raw)
2019
This paper revisits the physical meaning of linear, time-domain constitutive models with complex parameters that have been presented in the literature and concludes that such models are not physically realizable. While complex-parameter phenomenological models (including those with complex-order time derivatives) may be efficient in capturing in the frequency domain the frequency-dependent behavior of viscoelastic materials over a finite frequency band, they do not possess physically acceptable time-response functions. The paper first reviews the intimate relation between the causality of a physically realizable constitutive model and the analyticity of its frequency-response function and explains that in theory it is sufficient to conduct a nonlinear regression analysis for estimating the model parameters either on only the real part or on only the imaginary part of its frequency-response function, given that they are related with the Hilbert transform. Consequently, the resulting ...
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