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Please note that the Maxwell model describes a relation between shear stress and shear strain.

You can define a very similar model for bulk stress and bulk strain. However this requires that you have to add an extra term to avoid negative volumes.

The only reference for this article is a link to an MIT class webpage, and doesn't actually contain any information. I'm not sure if that was meant to indicate that the author is using class lectures or notes as the source, but either way I suspect this source doesn't really suffice.

Also, I wasn't sure what template message applied to this situation; I'll ask elsewhere of course, but if somebody happens to mosey past and see this message an answer would be appreciated. Kierkkadon (talk) 15:50, 10 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Update: I've gone ahead and found a better source, a paper from the MIT Dept. of Materials Science. More would be nice, but it pretty neatly and clearly describes the subject of this article in an encyclopedic manner, so I think we're good. It could also be used as an easy source for other articles, like Viscoelasticity and Kelvin–Voigt material. Kierkkadon (talk) 16:17, 10 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Are there any examples of a Maxwell material or should someone just add a few more charts and diagrams? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.197.144.134 (talk) 23:09, 4 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

I do not believe that the use of strain (and modulus) in the derivation is correct. Spring dashpot models are restricted to displacement and stiffness. This is because the rules for springs in series do not work for strains and modulus. For example, the claim that the total strain is equal to the sum of the strains of the spring and dashpot is incorrect. The total strain for elements in series is equal to the average of the strains of each element, not the sum. However, the total displacement is indeed equal to the sum of the displacements of each element. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spencesz3 (talk • contribs) 13:57, 19 November 2019 (UTC)Reply