We propose a model for the stress softening of isotropic, incompressible rubberlike materials. The model is derived from a micromechanical scheme of a polymeric network reinforced with fine filler particles, idealized as rigid, and connected by two different types of chains: elastic and breakable. The fraction of breakable chains, assigned through an appropriate distribution function, is responsible for the network alteration. This prototypical system is then extended to a three-dimensional model with isotropic stress softening. In order to illustrate this model, we discuss two explicit examples: the homogeneous deformation of uniaxial extension and the inhomogeneous deformation of azimuthal shear.

A micromechanics-based model for the Mullins effect / DE TOMMASI, Domenico; Puglisi, Giuseppe; Saccomandi, G.. - In: JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY. - ISSN 0148-6055. - 50:(2006), pp. 495-512. [10.1122/1.2206706]

A micromechanics-based model for the Mullins effect

DE TOMMASI, Domenico;PUGLISI, Giuseppe;
2006-01-01

Abstract

We propose a model for the stress softening of isotropic, incompressible rubberlike materials. The model is derived from a micromechanical scheme of a polymeric network reinforced with fine filler particles, idealized as rigid, and connected by two different types of chains: elastic and breakable. The fraction of breakable chains, assigned through an appropriate distribution function, is responsible for the network alteration. This prototypical system is then extended to a three-dimensional model with isotropic stress softening. In order to illustrate this model, we discuss two explicit examples: the homogeneous deformation of uniaxial extension and the inhomogeneous deformation of azimuthal shear.
2006
A micromechanics-based model for the Mullins effect / DE TOMMASI, Domenico; Puglisi, Giuseppe; Saccomandi, G.. - In: JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY. - ISSN 0148-6055. - 50:(2006), pp. 495-512. [10.1122/1.2206706]
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