[HTML][HTML] Constitutive modelling of rubbers: Mullins effect, residual strain, time-temperature dependence

B Fazekas, TJ Goda - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Filled rubbers are an important part of engineering materials because they have unique
properties such as large deformability, increased stiffness and energy dissipation ability. The …

Self-Encapsulated Breathable Reduced Oxide Graphene-Coated Melamine Foam for Stress Sensing

T Yu, Y Tao, Y Wu, D Zhang, J Yang… - ACS Applied Electronic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional graphene foam (GF)-based flexible piezoresistive sensors have the
advantages of high conductivity, large deformable range and light weight, which has been …

WYPIWYG hyperelasticity for isotropic, compressible materials

J Crespo, M Latorre, FJ Montáns - Computational Mechanics, 2017 - Springer
Nowadays the most common approach to model elastic behavior at large strains is through
hyperelasticity. Hyperelastic models usually specify the shape of the stored energy function …

Fracture toughness, hysteresis and stretchability of dielectric elastomers under equibiaxial and biaxial loading

D Ahmad, SK Sahu, K Patra - Polymer Testing, 2019 - Elsevier
With the emergence of different dielectric elastomer transducers, the characterizations of
dielectric elastomers are essential aspects for the design purpose. In this work, two potential …

Improved mechanical and electrochemical properties of XNBR dielectric elastomer actuator by poly (dopamine) functionalized graphene nano-sheets

D Yang, X Kong, Y Ni, M Ruan, S Huang, P Shao… - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this work, graphene nano-sheets (GNS) functionalized with poly (dopamine)(PDA)(
denoted as GNS-PDA) were dispersed in a carboxylated nitrile butadiene rubber (XNBR) …

Understanding the need of the compression branch to characterize hyperelastic materials

M Latorre, E De Rosa, FJ Montáns - International Journal of Non-Linear …, 2017 - Elsevier
Soft biological tissues are frequently modeled as hyperelastic materials. Hyperelastic
behavior is typically ensured by the assumption of a stored energy function with a pre …

Soft color composites with tunable optical transmittance

F López Jiménez, S Kumar… - Advanced Optical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A class of soft color composites whose light transmittance can be actively tuned and
controlled through mechanical actuation is studied. The design comprises thin sheets of …

Visco-hyper-pseudo-elastic characterization of a fluoro-silicone rubber

M Sasso, G Chiappini, M Rossi, L Cortese… - Experimental …, 2014 - Springer
The use of rubber like materials has a number applications, from automotive to aeronautics
and many other fields particular, as they are often used to make gaskets, hoses, separation …

Pseudo‐Elastic Analysis with Permanent Set in Carbon‐Filled Rubber

LH Huang, X Yang, J Gao - Advances in Polymer Technology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Via cyclic loading and unloading tests of natural/styrene‐butadiene rubber (NSBR) blends at
room temperature, the effects of the stretching, rate, temperature, and volume fraction of …

Dependence of actuation strain of dielectric elastomer on equi-biaxial, pure shear and uniaxial modes of pre-stretching

A Kumar, D Ahmad, K Patra - IOP Conference Series: Materials …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A dielectric elastomer is capable of large deformation under three basic modes of
deformation: equi-biaxial, pure shear and uniaxial. Pre-stretching of dielectric elastomer …