STRESS CONCENTRATION IN AN ELASTOMERIC SHEET SUBJECT TO LARGE DEFORMATIONS

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 classified as a Generalized Rivlin-Mooney type. Biaxial experiments were then conducted on the same sheet with a circular cutout and stress concentration factors were obtained. Results indicate a significant increase in the factor with increased displacements. A modified Particle-In-Cell (P.I.C.) method has been developed and analytical results were obtained for a sheet with a rigid circular inclusion. It is shown that the stress concentration factor for a Rivlin-Mooney material increases with increasing deformations, a result which is in qualitative agreement with solutions obtained by other methods. The use of the Generalized Rivlin-Mooney material, however, leads to a decrease in stress concentration with increasing deformations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0705378

Entities

People

  • Alexander Segal
  • Jerome M. Klosner

Organizations

  • New York University Tandon School of Engineering

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computational Science
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Elastic Materials
  • Elastic Properties
  • Elongation
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Natural Rubber
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Power Series
  • Shape
  • Stress Concentration
  • Stress Strain Relations

Readers

  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Structural Dynamics.