%0 Journal Article %T Modeling the Nonlinear Rheological Behavior of Materials with a Hyper-Exponential Type Function %A Marc Delphin Monsia %J Mechanical Engineering Research %D 2011 %I %R 10.5539/mer.v1n1p103 %X This paper describes a nonlinear rheological model consisting of a modified and extended classical Voigt model for predicting the time dependent deformation of a variety of viscoelastic materials exhibiting elastic, viscous and inertial nonlinearities simultaneously. The usefulness of the model is illustrated by numerical examples. %U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/mer/article/view/13974