The remarkable Gent constitutive model for hyperelastic materials

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

Volumn 68, Issue , 2015, Pages 9-16

  Horgan, Cornelius O ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastomers and soft biomaterials; Gent constitutive model; Hyperelastic materials; Limiting chain extensibility; Strain stiffening

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMATERIALS; CHAINS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; RUBBER; RUBBER APPLICATIONS; STRAIN;

HYPERELASTIC MATERIALS; INCOMPRESSIBLE MATERIAL; LARGE STRAINS; LIMITING CHAIN EXTENSIBILITY; NEO-HOOKEAN MODEL; RUBBER ELASTICITY; SEVERE STRAINS; TWO-MATERIALS;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 84912526609     PISSN: 00207462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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