The Mullins effect remains a major challenge in order to provide good mechanical modeling
of the complex behavior of industrial rubber materials. It has been forty years since Mullins …

In recent times, there is a rise in the application of bonded marine hoses on floating offshore
structures (FOS). These increased developments on bonded marine hoses have led to their …

The large strain nonlinear stress–strain behavior of thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs)
exhibits strong hysteresis, rate dependence and softening. Thermoplastic polyurethanes are …

This paper is concerned with determining material parameters in incompressible isotropic
elastic strain–energy functions on the basis of a non-linear least squares optimization …

Stress softening during initial loading cycles, known as the Mullins effect, and the residual
strain upon unloading are not accounted for when the mechanical properties of rubber are …

Strain‐induced light emission from mechanoluminescent cross‐linkers in silica‐filled poly
(dimethylsiloxane) demonstrates that covalent bond scission contributes significantly to …

Abstract In 1996, Alan Gent published a short paper that proposed the use of a very simple
two parameter phenomenological constitutive model for hyperelastic isotropic …

Elastomeric materials experience stretch-induced softening as evidenced by a pre-stretched
material exhibiting a significantly more compliant response than that of the virgin material. In …

Under repeated tensile strain, many particle-filled polymers such as silica-filled
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), exhibit a reduction in stress after the initial extension, the so …

Hydraulic seals are complicated machine elements. The engineering research on hydraulic
reciprocating seals, which commenced roughly in the 1930s, has achieved a basic …