In many aspects, elastomers and soft biological tissues exhibit similar mechanical properties
such as a pronounced nonlinear stress–strain relation and a viscoelastic response to …

There is a large variety of concepts used to generalize the classical Prandtl–Reuss relations
of infinitesimal elasto-plasticity to finite strains. In this work, some basic approaches are …

The transient response of elastomeric polymers is dependent on polymer composition,
temperature and the loading history. In particular, hysteresis, dissipation and creep are …

Real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) is a testing method by which a structural system is
divided into analytical and experimental substructures. This paper proposes a methodology …

We study the fracture behavior of glassy polymers using a multiscale simulation method that
integrates a molecular dynamics (MD) system within a continuum domain. By employing a …

In this contribution, we present a partitioned‐domain method coupling a particle domain and
a continuum domain for multiscale simulations of inelastic amorphous polymers under …

The present study focuses on the application of an integral-based approach for constructing
non-local ductile damage models. The incorporation of non-locality into the damage …

Computational homogenization schemes based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT) enable
studying the effective micromechanical behavior of polycrystalline microstructures with …

Sophisticated engineering systems are usually assembled by subcomponents with
significantly different levels of energy dissipation. Therefore, these damping systems often …

The integral approach to nonlocal ductile damage is developed to enable numerically stable
and physically reasonable simulations of crack initiation and propagation in metals. A …