Some gradient theories in linear visco-elastodynamics towards dispersion and attenuation of waves in relation to large-strain models

Various spatial-gradient extensions of standard viscoelastic rheologies of the Kelvin-Voigt, Maxwell’s, and Jeffreys’ types are analyzed in linear one-dimensional situations as far as the propagation of waves and their dispersion and attenuation. These gradient extensions are then presented in the large-strain nonlinear variants where they are sometimes used rather for purely analytical reasons either in the Lagrangian or the Eulerian formulations without realizing this wave-propagation context.The interconnection between these two modeling aspects is thus revealed in particular selected cases.