橡胶楔体与刚性缺口接触大变形分析

利用Ｋｕｏｗｌｅｓ与Ｓｔｅｒｎｂｅｒｇ提出的非线性弹性大变形应变能函数,对橡胶楔体与刚性缺口接触问题进行大变形渐近分析,推导了楔体尖端场的渐近方程,得到楔体尖端附近的应力应变场及应力的奇异性指数与橡胶楔体角度、刚性缺口角度及材料常数有关的表达式;楔尖附近同一半径上应力分量为常数,同时,利用非线性有限元理论编制了大变形有限元程序,考虑楔体尖端与缺口接触边界条件,计算得到了与分析解一致的结论,当缺口角     

平面应变不可压缩橡胶圆柱的大变形

针对一类新的橡胶材料应变能函数，推导了受内压作用下不可压缩橡胶圆柱的大变形公式，给出了位移、应力的解析表达式（用积分形式表示）。建立了适用于分析非线性不可压缩橡胶材料的罚有限元列式，算例表明：位移与应力能很好地与理论解吻合，并提出了控制计算稳定的方法，特别是详细地讨论罚因子的选取及对计算结果的影响。     

ANALYSIS OF AN INCOMPRESSIBLE RUBBER WEDGE CONTACTING WITH A RIGID NOTCH

I. INTRODUCTION It is well known that rubber materials are much more important in modern society. It is, therefore,not surprising that a sizable number of investigations have been concerned with the rubber materials.Considerable attention has been paid …     

应用非线性有限元法对某止水橡皮进行仿真计算

应用有限元分析软件对某具有超弹性、不可压缩性和大变形性质的伸缩式止水橡皮进行应力应变仿真分析计算。考虑到材料非线性、几何非线性和边界非线性等问题。通过对超弹性橡皮材料的大变形性质作定性的分析。和对止水橡皮在安装过程中的变形分析。计算支臂翼头在受到刚性夹板央紧作用下的应力分布、橡皮与钢夹之间的接触应力分布。从而分析止水橡皮的止水性能。     

Splitting a Viscoelastic Orthotropic Body with a Rigid Wedge of Thickness Increasing with Time

A crack model with a constant-length prefracture zone and a critical opening criterion are used to solve the wedging problem for a linear elastic body split by a rigid wedge with thickness increasing with time. Governing equations describing the behavior of the crack during the incubation and transient stages are presented. An algorithm is proposed to solve numerically the governing equation of transient crack growth     

Study on the Use of Motion Compensation Techniques to Determine Heat Sources. Application to Large Deformations on Cracked Rubber Specimens

This paper deals with the determination of the thermal response of elastomeric materials subjected to cyclic loading. In this case, the material undergoes large deformations, so a suitable motion compensation technique has been developed to track the material points and their temperature during the test. Special attention is paid to the Narcissus effect and to the detector matrix of the infrared camera used in the study. Heat sources are then derived from the temperature maps. The thermoelastic inversion phenomenon has been experimentally evidenced during a cyclic test performed on an elastomeric notched specimen. The heat source distribution close to the crack tip has also been deduced from the temperature maps, thus highlighting the relevance of the approach.     

Analysis of an Anisotropic Finite Wedge under Antiplane Deformation

The antiplane deformation of an anisotropic wedge with finite radius is considered in this paper within the classical linear theory of elasticity. The traction-free condition is imposed on the circular segment of the wedge. Three different cases of boundary conditions on the radial edges are considered, which are: traction-displacement, displacement-displacement and traction-traction. The solution to the governing differential equation of the problem is accomplished in the complex plane by relating the displacement field to a complex function. Several complex transformations are defined on this complex function and its first and second derivatives to formulate the problem in each of the three cases of the problem corresponding to the radial boundary conditions, separately. These transformations are then related to integral transforms which are complex analogies to the standard finite Mellin transforms of the first and second kinds. Closed form expressions are obtained for the displacement and stress fields in the entire domain. In all cases, explicit expressions for the strength of singularity are derived. These expressions show the dependence of the order of stress singularity on the wedge angle and material constants. In the displacement-displacement case, depending upon the applied displacement, a new type of stress singularity has been observed at the wedge apex. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Stress-softening Effects in the Transverse Vibration of a Non-Gaussian Rubber String

The Mullins effect in the small amplitude transverse vibration of a rubber cord is investigated. The fundamental frequency is determined for a specific class of stress-softening materials. Analytical relations for the cord vibration frequency are illustrated graphically for three phenomenological models. These results demonstrate the role of the material parameters and exhibit response characteristic of those reported in experiments by others and subsequently described here in new experiments. Frequency versus stretch results for two kinds of non-Gaussian molecular network models for rubber elasticity are compared with experimental data for four varieties of rubber cords, for each of which only three experimentally determined material constants are needed. It is shown that the theoretical predictions stand in excellent agreement with test data.     

Large deformation adhesive contact mechanics of circular membranes with a flat rigid substrate

We study the large deformation mechanics of contact and adhesion between an inflated hyperelastic membrane and a rigid substrate. The initial configuration of the membrane is flat and circular and is clamped at the edge. Two types of friction conditions between the membrane and the substrate are considered: frictionless and no-slip contact. We derive an exact expression for the energy release rate in terms of local variables at the contact edge, thus linking adhesion to the contact angle. Our model can account for the effects of fluid pressure for experiments performed in solution. We also extend our formulation to include surface tension. Numerical simulations for a neo-Hookean membrane are carried out to study the relation between applied pressure and contact area.     

Application of MLPG in Large Deformation Analysis

Two-dimensional large deformation analysis of hyperelastic and elasto-plastic solids based on the Meshless Local Petrov–Galerkin method (MLPG) is presented. A material configuration based the nonlinear MLPG formulation is introduced for the large deformation analysis of both path-dependent and path-independent materials. The supports of the MLS approximation functions cover the same sets of nodes during material deformation, thus the shape function needs to be computed only in the initial stage. The multiplicative hyperelasto-plastic constitutive model is adopted to avoid objective time integration for stress update in large rotation. With this constitutive model, the computational formulations for path-dependent and path-independent materials become identical. Computational efficiency of the nonlinear MLPG method is discussed and optimized in several aspects to make the MLPG an O(N) algorithm. The numerical examples indicate that the MLPG method can solve large deformation problems accurately. Moreover, the MLPG computations enjoy better convergence rate than the FEM under very large particle distortion.The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10472051). The English text was polished by Keren Wang.     

Analytical network-averaging of the tube model:: Rubber elasticity

In this paper, a micromechanical model for rubber elasticity is proposed on the basis of analytical network-averaging of the tube model and by applying a closed-form of the Rayleigh exact distribution function for non-Gaussian chains. This closed-form is derived by considering the polymer chain as a coarse-grained model on the basis of the quantum mechanical solution for finitely extensible dumbbells (Ilg et al., 2000). The proposed model includes very few physically motivated material constants and demonstrates good agreement with experimental data on biaxial tension as well as simple shear tests.     

多孔硅橡胶有限变形的弹性行为

针对孔隙度较大 (孔隙度大于 5 0 % )的硅橡胶材料在压缩情况下的大变形 ,提出了可描述此类可压橡胶材料力学行为的应变能密度函数 ,推导了硅橡胶材料的本构方程。利用硅橡胶材料的单轴压缩实验进行了材料参数拟合 ,讨论了多孔硅橡胶的孔隙度和体积变形对压缩性能的影响