Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
472484 Computers & Mathematics with Applications 2013 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

The aim of the paper is the description of fractional-order differential equations in terms of exact mechanical models. This result will be archived, in the paper, for the case of linear multiphase fractional hereditariness involving linear combinations of power-laws in relaxation/creep functions. The mechanical model corresponding to fractional-order differential equations is the extension of a recently introduced exact mechanical representation (Di Paola and Zingales (2012)  [33] and Di Paola et al. (2012)  [34]) of fractional-order integrals and derivatives. Some numerical applications have been reported in the paper to assess the capabilities of the model in terms of a peculiar arrangement of linear springs and dashpots.

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