Abstract
A stress-softening phenomenological model is applied to study the Mullins effect in the equibiaxial extension of a rubberlike material with limiting chain extensibility. The model is used to predict stress-softening behavior in the kinematically equivalent uniaxial compression of a block. It is shown that the theoretical predictions for two non-Gaussian molecular network models compare favorably with balloon inflation and simple compression data by others.
Back to Horgan Symposium
Back to SES Abstracts
Back to The 41st Annual SES Technical Meeting