An investigation on the use of alternative shapes to determine the applicable strain energy function for nearly-incompressible hyperelastic materials

Different assumptions on the nature of the mechaninsm involved in the deformation of hyperelastic materials have led to a number of different proposals for the functional form of the strain energy function. The proponents of each form employed different methods to fit their function on the experimen...

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Main Author: Senador, Antonio E.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 1999.
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