... membranes stress analysis stress-strain relations parameter identification finite inflation test nonlinear membrane inverse method inverse elastostatics This article is the first of a multiple part paper that introduces a new experimental method for delineating the distributive elastic...

...Xuefeng Zhao; Xiaolin Chen; Jia Lu Following the theoretical and computational developments of the pointwise membrane identification method reported in the first part of this paper, we perform a finite inflation test on a rubber balloon to validate the method. The balloon is inflated using a series...