Abstract." An attempt is made to incorporate into a quasilinear viscoelastic constitutive equation of the Boltzmann superposition type the two mirror relations of Gleissle, as well as his relation between the steady-state first normal-stress difference and the shear viscosity curve. It is shown that the three relations can hold separately within this constitutive model, but not simultaneously, because they require a different nonlinear strain measure, namely $12 (7)= 7-a(7-1) (a = 0 for 7 --< 1, a = 1 for 7 => 1) for the mirroring of the viscosities, $12(7 ) = 7-a(7-k2/7) (a = 0 for 7 = k, a = 1 for 7 >-k) for the mirroring of the first normal-stress coefficients, and SI2 (7) = ½ 7 {1 -erf[ln (7/2 I/k)/2V2~k]} for the third relation. Here 7 denotes the shear strain and erf the error function. Experimental data on melts of a low-density polyethylene, a high-density polyethylene and a polypropylene show that the mirror relations are passable approximations, but that the third relation meets reality surprisingly close if the right value of k is used.
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