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Ut vis sic tensio

Giuseppe Saccomandi

Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Abstract: The mechanical properties of rubber-like materials have been offering an outstanding challenge to the solid mechanics community for a long time. The behaviour of such materials is quite difficult to predict because rubber self-organizes into mesoscopic physical structures that play a prominent role in determining their complex, history-dependent and strongly nonlinear response. In this framework one of the main problems is to find a functional form of the elastic strain-energy that best describes the experimental data in a mathematical feasible way. The aim of this paper is to give a survey of recent advances aimed at solving such a problem.

Keywords: hyper-elasticity, simple extension, phenomenological reduction, non-Gaussian effects.

MSC: 74B20

Received: 03.07.2017
Revised: 28.10.2017

Language: English

DOI: 10.2298/TAM170703011S

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