The time evolution of the auxiliary stress tensor Qm in each viscoelastic branch is given by the rate
here, Siso,m is the isochoric second Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor in the branch
m. These tensors are derived from the strain energy density in the main hyperelastic branch and the
energy factors βm as
For the The Generalized Maxwell Model, it is possible to write the Prony series in terms of weights
wm with respect to the instantaneous stiffness
G0
Here, w∞ is the ratio between the long term and instantaneous stiffness,
w∞ = G∞/G0, and the weight
wm relates the branch stiffness to the instantaneous stiffness through
wm = Gm/G0. The weights are bounded by