| Abstract: | The knowledge of the material behaviour of polymeric foams and their experimental investigation is the starting point for the structure of the chosen constitutive equations and for the following identification of the material constants therein. Especially for the parameter identification, it is necessary to make an adequate set of experimental data available. In this regard, it is important that the experiments make the different kinds of material behaviour visible like elastic, plastic or viscous material properties. For this reason, the foam is observed under uniaxial tension and compression and under simple shear tests combined with different deformation states in axial direction. Unfortunately, due to different reasons, e.g., the foam must be sticked on the fastener to realize the tests mentioned above, it is very difficult to initialize a homogenous deformation state in the specimen. Therefore, the experiments are recorded with a standard digital camcorder to get local information of the deformation state by tracking single points with algorithms of the digital image processing. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) |
