The macroscopic mechanical response of polymers can be traced down to the microscale
physics of the network by using a statistical approach for the description of the configuration …

Introduction and hypothesis The female pelvic floor is a complex network of ligaments and
muscles whose mechanical properties have not been completely understood. The goal of …

Even in a simple quasi-static loading, filled elastomers demonstrate distinct inelastic
phenomena, such as the Mullins effect, deformation induced anisotropy, permanent set …

A 40 phr carbon-black filled styrene butadiene rubber has been submitted to several
experiments in order to identify the physical damage responsible for the mechanical …

The Mullins effect of filled elastomers, corresponding to their softening under stretching, has
been widely explored and several models have been proposed to reproduce it. However …

Highlights•Ionic double crosslinked hydrogel synthesized by facile, visible-light-triggered
polymerization and salt impregnation.•The hydrogel overcomes the limited recoverability of …

Strain-induced crystallization is a unique crystallization process taking place solely in
polymers subjected to large deformations. It plays a major role for reinforcement and …

A non-affine microsphere model for rubberlike materials is proposed, based on a local
minimization of the network free energy under a maximal advance path constraint. It …

In this paper, a micromechanically based constitutive model capturing anisotropic stress
softening in reinforced elastomers under quasi-static loading is presented. A novel spatial …

Anisotropy induced by stress-softening phenomena (Mullins effect) in filled elastomers has
been intensively investigated using various stretching modes for pre-stretching. A sequence …