...Choon-Sik Jhun; John C. Criscione Rubber materials have mostly been modeled by utilizing hyperelasticity, which have led to greater understanding and acceptable predictability of their stress-strain response. However, inherent inelastic behavior excluded by approximation has never been...

...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...

...N. Gil-Negrete; J. Vinolas; L. Kari A nonlinear rubber material model is presented, where influences of frequency and dynamic amplitude are taken into account through fractional order viscoelasticity and plasticity, respectively. The problem of simultaneously modeling elastic, viscoelastic...

... growth behavior in the material are discussed. 18 01 2005 20 01 2006 rubber fracture mechanics cracks stress effects structural engineering An important engineering problem in structural design is evaluating its integrity and reliability. It is well known that structural...

... in the tire subject to indoor accelerated durability tests. Along with a proprietary fatigue crack growth law, a fracture mechanics based durability analysis methodology is developed and successfully applied to rank durability of tires with different constructions or different rubber materials. Email...

...H. Kobayashi; R. Vanderby Acoustoelastic analysis has usually been applied to compressible engineering materials. Many materials (e.g., rubber and biologic materials) are “nearly” incompressible and often assumed incompressible in their constitutive equations. These material models do not admit...

...J. M. Horton; G. E. Tupholme 19 01 2005 rubber stress analysis stress effects Young's modulus elasticity internal stresses reviews Our immediate reaction to the comments of Pence was one of amazement that such a supposedly prestigious journal would consider it appropriate...

...T. J. Pence 19 01 2005 rubber stress analysis stress effects internal stresses stress-strain relations shear deformation Young's modulus Poisson ratio shear modulus reviews The paper by Horton, Tupholme, and Gover ( 1 ) analyzes the deformation behavior of rubber using...

...J. M. Horton; G. E. Tupholme; M. J. C. Gover Axially loaded rubber blocks of long, thin rectangular and circular cross section whose ends are bonded to rigid plates are studied. Closed-form expressions, which satisfy exactly the governing equations and conditions based upon the classical theory...

... . 15 January 2001 11 September 2001 16 08 2002 elasticity biological tissues molecular biophysics entropy rubber biomechanics boundary-value problems finite element analysis polymers Many engineering materials such as wood and fiber-reinforced composites, as well...

... of molecular networks with different reference states. A constitutive framework, based on the experimental work of Tobolsky, is used to determine the evolution of deformation of a solid rubber cylinder spinning at constant angular velocity at an elevated temperature. Responses based on underlying neo-Hookean...

..., a sensitive transmission bar is required to detect the weak transmitted pulses. Experimental results show that homogeneous deformations at nearly constant strain rates can be achieved in materials with very low impedances, such as a silicone rubber and a polyurethane foam, with the experimental modifications...

... materials including elastomers and biological soft tissues. The utility of this device for thermoelastic and thermophysical investigations is demonstrated by the measurement of the in-plane stress-stretch response and in-plane and out-of-plane components of thermal diffusivity of neoprene rubber undergoing...

...R. Bhattacharyya, Mem. ASME, Associate Professor, The stability of motion of a nonlinear neo-Hookean rubber spring pendulum under a special type of support oscillation is studied. The small swing motion is described by a Mathieu-Hill equation, corresponding stability curves for which are generated...