A rate-type viscoelastic material with very small relaxation time parameter should be almost an elastic material intuitively. In this paper, we shall prove that smooth solutions of initial-boundary value problems, with periodic boundary conditions of a one-dimensional elastic body, can be obtained as the vanishing relaxation limits of the corresponding viscoelastic problems.
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