Stress relaxation in a bended viscoelastic plate with tension-compression asymmetry

The paper presents an analytical solution of the problem of stress relaxation in a bended viscoelastic plate. The effect the difference in the viscous properties of the material in tension and compression on the relaxation of the bending moment is investigated. The deformation is assumed to be finite, and the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient tensor into elastic and inelastic components is used. Two different material models with tension-compression asymmetry are compared.