Stability problems of inhomogeneous viscoelastic media
Résumé
A SYSTEMATIC theory has been developed for the stability of viscoelastic media under prestress. Use is made of linear thermodynamics and of general equations for the deformation of a prestressed medium estabf Iished by the author. The theory is applied to the analysis of sinusoidal folding of stratified viscoelastic media in compression with continuous and discontinuous inhomogeneity. The influence of gravity is included. Some applications and preliminary model test data are presented. The phenomenon of buckling in compression of an elastic inhomogeneous