How to characterize a nonlinear elastic material? A review on nonlinear constitutive parameters in isotropic finite elasticity

LA Mihai, A Goriely - Proceedings of the Royal Society A …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The mechanical response of a homogeneous isotropic linearly elastic material can be fully
characterized by two physical constants, the Young's modulus and the Poisson's ratio, which …

Stochastic isotropic hyperelastic materials: constitutive calibration and model selection

LA Mihai, TE Woolley, A Goriely - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biological and synthetic materials often exhibit intrinsic variability in their elastic responses
under large strains, owing to microstructural inhomogeneity or when elastic data are …

Instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers

LA Mihai, A Goriely - MRS Bulletin, 2021 - Springer
Stability is an important and fruitful avenue of research for liquid crystal elastomers. At
constant temperature, upon stretching, the homogeneous state of a nematic body becomes …

Hypo-elasticity, Cauchy-elasticity, corotational stability and monotonicity in the logarithmic strain

P Neff, S Holthausen, MV d'Agostino… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We combine the rate-formulation for the objective, corotational Zaremba-Jaumann
rate\begin {align}\frac {{\rm D}^{\rm ZJ}}{{\rm D} t}[\sigma]=\mathbb {H}^{\rm ZJ}(\sigma) …

A visco-hyperelastic model with Mullins effect for polyurethane elastomers combining a phenomenological approach with macromolecular information

BP Reis, LM Nogueira, DA Castello, LA Borges - Mechanics of Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The classical generalized formulations for nonlinear viscoelastic behaviour do not represent
the state of the art of modelling elastomeric materials and significant effects observed on …

[图书][B] Stochastic elasticity: a nondeterministic approach to the nonlinear field theory

LA Mihai - 2022 - books.google.com
Stochastic elasticity is a fast developing field that combines nonlinear elasticity and
stochastic theories in order to significantly improve model predictions by accounting for …

A finite element implementation of the isotropic exponentiated Hencky-logarithmic model and simulation of the eversion of elastic tubes

B Nedjar, H Baaser, RJ Martin, P Neff - Computational Mechanics, 2018 - Springer
We investigate a finite element formulation of the exponentiated Hencky-logarithmic model
whose strain energy function is given by W_ eH (F)= μ k\, e^\displaystyle k\left|| dev _n\log …

Injectivity of the Cauchy-stress tensor along rank-one connected lines under strict rank-one convexity condition

P Neff, LA Mihai - Journal of Elasticity, 2017 - Springer
In this note, we show that the Cauchy stress tensor σ σ in nonlinear elasticity is injective
along rank-one connected lines provided that the constitutive law is strictly rank-one convex …

Hyperelastic bodies under homogeneous Cauchy stress induced by three-dimensional non-homogeneous deformations

LA Mihai, P Neff - Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In isotropic finite elasticity, unlike in linear elastic theory, a homogeneous Cauchy stress may
be induced by non-homogeneous strains. To illustrate this, we identify compatible non …

More on anti-plane shear

J Voss, H Baaser, RJ Martin, P Neff - Journal of Optimization Theory and …, 2020 - Springer
We reconsider anti-plane shear deformations based on prior work of Knowles and relate the
existence of anti-plane shear deformations to fundamental constitutive concepts of elasticity …