In this note, we study the response of a viscoelastic body whose stress relaxation modulus and creep compliance depend on the density of the body in such a manner that the stress and strain appear linearly in the constitutive equation. Such models would be useful to study the response of porous viscoelastic bodies undergoing small deformations, as the moduli depend on the porosity, and hence the density. We study the problem of tension–torsion of cylinders of arbitrary cross-section within the context of this constitutive relation.
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