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Kelvin-Voigt material

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

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Synonyms: Voigt material

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History

Etymology

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