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Materials such as asphalt, polymers or the Earth's crust tend to behave in a way that can be described neither with a model of viscous fluid, nor a model from solid mechanics. There are indeed models capable of capturing these so called viscoelastic phenomena far better, but they are based on the presumption of constant temperature. In many cases, e.g. in the glass industry or in geophysics, the properties of a viscoelastic material strongly depend on temperature. That is why it is precisely these changes that need to be described. There are viscoelastic models used in practice that take into account the material parameters' dependence on temperature, however, they do not consider the viscoelastic nature of the material when describing the temperature evolution. The objective of this thesis is to derive thermodynamically consistent viscoelastic models with temperature dependent parameters and the appropriate evolution equation for temperature, implementation of the models and computing simple test simulations. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A consideration of the physical principles involved in evaporative drying of soil indicates that several physical processes might possibly limit the rate of evaporation. These include the rate of supply of energy to the site of evaporation, the rate of transfer of water vapor through the sample or through the atmosphere above the sample, and the rate of unsaturated flow of water to the soil surface or to the site of evaporation.

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<p> A well characterized titanate system, Nd1_xTi03, has been studied by temperature dependent reflectance spectroscopy between 50 and 40 000 cm-1 at three different doping levels, x = 0.019, 0.046, and 0.095, which yield a Matt-Hubbard insulator, a semiconductor and a correlated metal, respectively. Two main issues are discussed regarding the optical properties of the current system. The first is the variation of the low-lying electronic structure with hole concentration. The doping-dependent optical conductivity of Nd1_xTi03 shows several obvious differences when compared to the superconducting cuprates. We observed mid-infrared absorption bands in the doped samples, suggesting that mid-gap states develop inside the Hubbard gap with hole doping in the context of a two-component model. A quantitative analysis of the spectral weight below 1.2 e V as a function of doping indicates that the evolution rate of the optical excitations below 1.2 eV is related to the electron correlation strength of the parent insulator, which has been observed in other titanates as well. The second issue addressed in this thesis is the temperature-dependent optical features of the correlated metallic sample with x = 0.095, a composition close to the metal-insulator transition at x '"'-~ 0.08. The optical conductivity shows an anomalous enhancement of spectral weight below leV, in both the Drude and midinfrared part, that develops with decreasing temperature. The dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) may explain this feature. Meanwhile, the metallic sample displays a Fermi-liquid like behavior in the low-frequency limit, which can be established from the spectra of the scattering rate as a function of both frequency and temperature. We found a good agreement between the experimental results extracted from the scattering rate and the Fermi-liquid theory. </p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

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