A new phenomenological model for stress-softening in elastomers

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 794-814

  Zuniga A E ^a,b   Beatty, M F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive equations; Damaged induced inelasticity; Elastomers; Finite deformations; Mullins effect; Non Gaussian network models; Simple tension; Stress softening

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036026449     PISSN: 00442275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00022513     Document Type: Article

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