i-Rheo-Tempo: A model-free, quadrature-free reconstruction of the shear relaxation modulus from complex viscosity

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Authors: Jorge Ramı́rez, Manlio Tassieri
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Abstract

Reliable transformation between frequency- and time-domain material functions remains a central challenge in linear viscoelasticity due to finite bandwidth, discrete sampling, and experimental noise. We introduce i-Rheo-Tempo, a quadrature-free method that reconstructs the shear relaxation modulus directly from dynamic measurements through an exact second-derivative representation of the complex viscosity. When the spectrum is approximated as piecewise linear, the inversion reduces to a compact interval-slope formulation based solely on local spectral properties, avoiding numerical quadrature, parametric fitting, and predefined relaxation spectra. The method is validated against a set of complex fluids including synthetic models, polymer melts, industrial elastomers, comb polymers, and broadband microrheology datasets spanning nearly nine decades in frequency. In all cases, the reconstructed relaxation modulus is in quantitative agreement with independent time-domain measurements. These results demonstrate that i-Rheo-Tempo provides a robust, model-free solution to the frequency-to-time inverse problem and, more generally, establishes a framework for recovering time-domain responses from experimentally measured complex spectra.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids Elasticity and Material Modeling

Publication details

Journal / source
Journal of Rheology
Publisher
Society of Rheology
Volume
70
Issue
5
Pages
1089–1104
Publication date
28 July 2026
Language
EN