MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A NATURAL RUBBER.

Abstract

Biaxial and uniaxial experiments have been conducted on a thin sheet of natural rubber, which can be assumed to be incompressible, isotropic and perfectly elastic. The strain energy function and constitutive equations have been determined, and the material is seen to be of the general Rivlin-Saunders type. Also included is a description of the biaxial testing apparatus which was designed and constructed for use in the general investigation of stress concentration in elastomers. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0698464

Entities

People

  • Alexander Segal
  • Jerome M. Klosner

Organizations

  • New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amorphous Materials
  • Biomedical And Dental Materials
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Elastomers
  • Equations
  • Films
  • Materials
  • Natural Rubber
  • Polymeric Films
  • Rubber
  • Specialty Uses Of Chemicals
  • Stress Concentration
  • Stresses

Readers

  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.