<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Ikuo,<div><br></div><div>I have not had a chance to look at this yet, but I will try to look at it in the next few days.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Charles</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 19/03/2010, at 7:29 PM, Ikuo Cho wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear PyLith Developers<br><br>The values of viscous_strain decrease with an increase of time when the<br>viscoelastic property is given as MaxwellIsotropic3D. I confirmed<br>quantitatively that the "viscous_strain" represents the elastic strains<br>for some problem (a relation, 2*(rigidity)*(diviatoric<br>"viscous_strain")= stress, was established). <br><br> The values of viscous_strain decrease with an increase of time when the<br>viscoelastic property is given as PowerLaw3D. A relation,<br>2*(rigidity)*(diviatoric total_strain-diviatoric viscous_strain)= stress,<br>was confirmed in this case.<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------<br>Ikuo Cho ( <a href="mailto:ikuo-chou@aist.go.jp">ikuo-chou@aist.go.jp</a> )<br>Geological Survey of Japan,<br>National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology<br>Tsukuba Central 7, Tsukuba 305-8567 Japan<br>Tel +81-29-861-3891, Fax +81-29-861-3682<br>----------------------------------------------------------<br><span><fig.jpg></span>_______________________________________________<br>CIG-SHORT mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CIG-SHORT@geodynamics.org">CIG-SHORT@geodynamics.org</a><br>http://geodynamics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cig-short<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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