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Mechanical Relaxation in Glasses and at the Glass Transition

arXiv:cond-mat/0008280 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.63.104203

Abstract

The Gilroy-Phillips model of relaxational jumps in asymmetric double-well potentials, developed for the Arrhenius-type secondary relaxations of the glass phase, is extended to a formal description of the breakdown of the shear modulus at the glass transition, the flow process.

13 pages, 11 figures, 49 refs