...Bhavesh Shrimali; Oscar Lopez-Pamies Shrimali and Lopez-Pamies (2023, “The ‘Pure-Shear’ Fracture Test for Viscoelastic Elastomers and Its Revelation on Griffth Fracture,” Extreme Mech. Lett., 58, p. 101944) have recently shown that the Griffith criticality condition that governs crack growth...

...K. Y. Volokh Permittivity of electroactive elastomers alters during deformation. The influence of the permittivity alterations on the electrostriction of elastomers is studied in the present work. Particularly, acrylic elastomer VHB 4910 is considered. A polarization–electric field constitutive...

... elastomers flow through porous media foams lubrication non-Newtonian fluids plates (structures) shear flow silicon compounds stress-strain relations viscosity foam lubrication approximation non-Newtonian porous media shear-thickening fluid While existing armor is highly advanced...

...-driven cantilevers and clamped structures that experience buckling. We demonstrate that the use of surface-grafted polyelectrolytes (such as DNA) and ultracompliant elastomer structures is particularly attractive since deformation can be tuned over a very wide range by varying grafting density...

...Nakhiah Goulbourne; Eric Mockensturm; Mary Frecker The material and geometrical nonlinearities of novel dielectric elastomer actuators make them more difficult to model than linear materials used in traditional actuators. To accurately model dielectric elastomers, a comprehensive mathematical...

... t for a number of elastomers. For a particular natural rubber vulcanizate in the temperature range 100   ° C ⩽ T ⩽ 130   ° C , Tobolsky showed that (4) β T , t = exp − α T t , with (5) α T = k B k P   T   exp...

.... 30, 2001 final revision, July 7, 2003 Associate Editor: K. R. Rajagopal. 30 Nov 2001 07 July 2003 17 03 2004 viscoelasticity modelling impact (mechanical) elastomers elastic hysteresis The impact of solid bodies is a complicated phenomena and could be studied...

... modulus and viscosity from thermal softening to thermal hardening with rising temperature, which does not involve any phase change, has been observed in certain elastomers. An explanation about this interesting phenomenon is given based on thermodynamic considerations. A theoretical analysis is performed...

... response and permanent set upon removal of applied loads. elastomers thermoelasticity polymer structure molecular configurations angular velocity rotation boundary-value problems shear modulus rubber 05 April 2001 05 February 2002 16 08 2002 Contributed...

... materials including elastomers and biological soft tissues. The utility of this device for thermoelastic and thermophysical investigations is demonstrated by the measurement of the in-plane stress-stretch response and in-plane and out-of-plane components of thermal diffusivity of neoprene rubber undergoing...