Objective. Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) and low back pain caused by IDD have
attracted public attention owing to their extremely high incidence and disability rate …

When subjected to cyclic creep (ratcheting) loading with rest periods between the loading
cycles, the viscoplastic behavior of asphaltic materials changes such the rate of …

In the present work, the large deformation rate-dependent constitutive behavior of isotactic
polypropylene is studied via an experimentally validated macroscale constitutive model. To …

Based on the experimental observations to the cyclic deformation of polyamide-6 polymer
(PA6) involving a multi-field coupled issue, a new hygro-thermo-mechanical coupled cyclic …

Observations are reported on low density polyethylene (LDPE) in uniaxial tensile cyclic tests
(oscillations between maximum elongation ratios k max (n) and the zero minimum stress σ …

The uniaxial multi-level loading-unloading-recovery, uniaxial creep-recovery and uniaxial
and non-proportional multi-axial stress-controlled cyclic tests were first performed to study …

A micromechanical model considering the spherulite structure of semi‐crystalline polymers
was established in this study. The micro stress–strain histories were captured by combining …

In this work, the anisotropic damage of semi-crystalline polymers is investigated. The model,
developed within a thermodynamic framework, includes the following features:(i) the degree …

A cyclic hardening-relaxation model is proposed that significantly enhances the prediction of
the viscoplastic (VP) strain of asphalt concrete under cyclic compressive-loading conditions …

To describe the mechanical properties of SAC305 under comprehensive loading conditions,
a new model was proposed based on the internal variable theory. The tensile property of …