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The creep compliance and relaxation functions used in the characterization of the mechanical response of linear viscoelastic solids are traditionally determined by conducting two separate experiments\u2014creep tests and relaxation tests. This paper first reviews the steps involved in conducting the interconversion between creep compliance and relaxation modulus in the time domain, illustrating that the relaxation modulus can be obtained from the creep compliance. This enables the determination of the relaxation modulus from the results of creep tests, which can be easily performed in pneumatic equipment or simple compression devices and are less costly than direct relaxation tests. Some existing methods of interconversion between the creep compliance and the relaxation modulus for linear viscoelastic materials are also presented. Then, a new approximate interconversion scheme is introduced using a convenient Laplace transform and an approximated Gamma function to convert the measured creep compliance to the relaxation modulus. To demonstrate the accuracy of the fittings obtained with the method proposed, as well as its ease of implementation and general applicability, different experimental data from the literature are used.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym12123001","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,16]],"date-time":"2020-12-16T22:12:06Z","timestamp":1608156726000},"page":"3001","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A Combined Exponential-Power-Law Method for Interconversion between Viscoelastic Functions of Polymers and Polymer-Based Materials"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2708-334X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vitor","family":"Dacol","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CONSTRUCT (ViBEST), Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1188-5978","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elsa","family":"Caetano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CONSTRUCT (ViBEST), Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5485-136X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jo\u00e3o R.","family":"Correia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CERIS, DECivil, IST, University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Pang, M., Li, Z., and Lou, T. 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