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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MECHANICS A-SOLIDS
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 483-496Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2005.09.011
Keywords
rubber; Mullins effect; anisotropy
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A stress softening, commonly known as the Mullins effect, is observed usually in filled rubberlike materials after the first load. Experimental observations have shown that the Mullins effect induces a permanent set and some anisotropy. In order to account for these two features, a strain energy density is proposed, which is based on material directions and coupled with a theory for network alteration. The constitutive law is based on a macromolecular approach, and the network alteration theory is motivated physically. The model has been compared to experimental data successfully. (c) 2005 Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.
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