Preface. List of symbols. Introduction. Continuum mechanics background. Linear viscoelasticity. Transition to dynamic viscoelasticity. Three-dimensional linear viscoelasticity. Thermoviscoelasticity. Transition to nonlinear viscoelasticity. Numerical analysis in viscoelasticity. Wave propagation. Viscoelastic boundary value problem. Extension of the phenomenological theory of viscoelasticity to include microscopic effects. Appendices. Index.