Stress Concentration in Microstructural Elements of Viscoelastic Composite Materials

We present solution of the problem of estimating the stress concentration in the constituents (matrix and inclusions) of a multiconstituent viscoelastic composite material, depending on the shape of inclusions, properties of the matrix and the whole composite. The matrix material is isotropic and viscoelastic. A wide range of properties of inclusions (e.g., pores, solid and viscous particles) is considered. To solve this problem, we use the method of integral transformations. __________ Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 5, pp. 138 – 149, September – October, 2005.