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A nonlinear regularization method for the calculation of relaxation spectra

Josef Honerkamp, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1993 - 
- Vol. 32, Iss: 1, pp 65-73
TLDR
In this paper, the authors proposed a nonlinear regularization method to calculate the relaxation spectrum in the terminal and plateau region of a polyamide polymer solution, which can be used to obtain a more complete relaxation spectrum.
Abstract
It is well known that the relaxation spectrum characterizing the linear viscoelastic properties of a polymer melt or solution is not directly accessible by an experiment. Therefore, it must be calculated from data for a material function. With Tikhonov regularization the relaxation spectrum in the terminal and plateau region can be calculated from data for a material function in the corresponding region. Serious difficulties arise however, if the spectrum should be determined in a larger range. These difficulties are caused by the considerably different contributions at short and long relaxation times. We show that these difficulties can be avoided by a nonlinear regularization method.

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Viscoelastic properties of polymers

John D. Ferry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the nature of Viscoelastic behavior of polymeric systems and approximate relations among the linear Viscoels and approximate interrelations among the Viscelastic Functions.
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A reliable and fast method for the solution of Fredhol integral equations of the first kind based on Tikhonov regularization

TL;DR: In this article, a solution method based on Tikhonov regularization together with the computer program FTIKREG is presented, which leads to much better results, because the error of the result depends mainly on the regularization parameter.
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The relaxation of polymers with linear flexible chains of uniform length

TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of dynamic mechanical data indicates that linear flexible polymer chains of uniform length follow a scaling relation during their relaxation, having a linear viscoelastic relaxation spectrum of the formH(λ) = n¯¯¯¯1>>\G====== 0� 0� × (λ/λ ≥ 0.22) for polystyrene and 0.42 for polybutadiene.
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Tikhonovs regularization method for ill-posed problems

TL;DR: In this paper, Tikhonov regularization is applied to determine material characteristic functions, such as the molecular mass distribution of a polymeric sample or the relaxation spectrum of a viscoelastic fluid, leading to an ill-posed problem.