The Gilroy-Phillips model of relaxational jumps in asymmetric double-well potentials, developed for the Arrhenius-type secondary relaxations of the glass phase, is extended to a formal description of the breakdown of the shear modulus at the glass transition, the flow process.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0008280,
title = {Mechanical Relaxation in Glasses and at the Glass Transition},
author = {U. Buchenau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0008280},
year = {2007}
}