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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES 卷:46
Heuristic search for a predictive strain-energy function in nonlinear elasticity
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Miroshnychenko, Dmitri1  Green, W. A.1 
[1] Univ Loughborough, Sch Math, Dept Math Sci, Loughborough LE11 3TU, Leics, England
关键词: Deformation;    Constitutive behaviour;    Polymeric material;    Polymer network;    Finite strain;   
DOI  :  10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2008.08.037
来源: Elsevier
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In this work, a new, quasi-structural model - bootstrapped eight-chain model - is proposed as a modification to the strain energy of eight-chain model [Arruda, E.M., Boyce. M.C., 1993. A three-dimensional constitutive model for the large stretch behaviour of rubber elastic materials. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 41, 389-412] that invokes the Langevin chain statistics. This development his been led to by our heuristic search into how the strain energy of eight-chain model may be adapted in order to account better for the mechanical behaviour of elastomeric materials in both linear and nonlinear elastic regimes [Treloar, L.R.G., 1944. Stress-strain data for vulcanised rubber under various types of deformation. Trans. Faraday Soc. 40, 59-70]. The eight-chain model appears to produce very similar results in predicting biaxial stress to those of a first stretch-invariant model that gives a good fit in uniaxial extension and, thus, it is shown that the former can not be significantly enhanced within the limitation of the latter. Evaluation of predictive capability for an additive invariant-separated form of strain energy shows that an explicit inclusion of a second stretch-invariant function would not work and that any thus added term ought to be dependent on both the first and second stretch-invariants of deformation tensor, and hints that an improvement is possibly needed at low strain. The composite and filament models [Miroshnychenko, D., Green, W.A., Turner, D.M.. 2005. Composite and filament models for the mechanical behaviour of elastomeric materials. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 53 (4), 748-770] have their strain-energy functions in that suggested form and cope very well with predicting the experimental data of Treloar (1944). We use the form of strain energy for the filament model, that proved to be successful, to bootstrap the strain energy of eight-chain model in order to improve the performance of the latter at low strain. Thus, we derive a now model - bootstrapped eight-chain model - that requires only two material parameters - a rubber modulus and a limiting chain extensibility. The proposed model is quasi-structural due to bootstrapping and it retains the best traits and corrects the faults of the eight-chain model, conforming more closely to the classical experimental data of Treloar (1944). (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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