Study of the interconversion between viscoelastic behaviour functions of PMMA

The use of polymers and polymer-based composites in mechanical, civil and electronic engineering has been growing owing to advances in the technology of materials. The different applications and working conditions of these materials require knowledge about their viscoelastic material functions: relaxation modulus, compliance, complex modulus, etc. Interconversion between these functions may be required for different reasons such as the impossibility of direct experimentation under certain excitation conditions. In this work, a DMA is used to calculate the experimental viscoelastic functions of a linear viscoelastic material (PMMA). The same functions are estimated by interconversion methods and compared with experimental ones. The results show that the interconversion functions fit properly the experimental functions.