A theory of stress softening of elastomers based on finite chain extensibility

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 460, Issue 2046, 2004, Pages 1737-1754

  Horgan, Cornelius O ^a   Ogden, Ray W ^b   Saccomandi, Giuseppe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gent constitutive model; Inverse Langevin function; Limiting chain extensibility; Mullins effect; Rubber elasticity; Stress softening phenomena

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; RUBBER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SOLID; THEORY;

EID: 2542630318     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1248     Document Type: Article

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