Bulging of dielectric elastomer tubes considering residual stress and viscoelasticity

L Liu, Y Han, H Yong - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impacts of residual stress and viscoelasticity on the bifurcation
and post-bifurcation behaviors of dielectric elastomer tube actuator (DETA) with finite …

Representation of stress and free energy for a viscoelastic body from a stressed reference

S Mukherjee, P Ravindran - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2024 - Elsevier
Viscoelastic materials are often initially or residually stressed in the reference configuration.
This stress and associated configuration may also evolve temporally without any external …

Application of sensitivity analysis in extension, inflation, and torsion of residually stressed circular cylindrical tubes

H Asghari, H Topol, B Markert, J Merodio - Probabilistic Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper deals with applying two main sensitivity analysis (SA) methods, namely, the
Sobol method and the Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test (FAST) method on the problem of …

Instabilities of an inflated and extended doubly fiber-reinforced cylindrical membrane under damage processes and different natural configurations of its constituents …

H Topol, H Nazari, M Stoffel, B Markert, J Lacalle… - Thin-Walled …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article studies extended and inflated tubes made of doubly fiber-reinforced hyperelastic
material in which the constituents undergo damage processes at large deformations …

On the helical buckling of anisotropic tubes with application to arteries

NK Jha, S Moradalizadeh, J Reinoso, H Topol… - Mechanics Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
The helical stability experienced by elastic cylinders is investigated using numerical
methods. A doubly fiber-reinforced incompressible nonlinear elastic tube subject to axial …

Bifurcation of Fiber-Reinforced Cylindrical Membranes under‎ Extension, Inflation, and Swelling

H Topol, MJ Al-Chlaihawi, H Demirkoparan… - Journal of Applied and …, 2023 - jacm.scu.ac.ir
We analyze bifurcation for a cylindrical membrane capable of swelling subjected to
combined axial loading and internal pressure. The material is conceptualized as an isotropic …

Post-bifurcation of inflated fibrous cylindrical membranes under different fiber configurations

H Topol, H Asghari, M Stoffel, B Markert… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We consider a cylindrical membrane that consists of an isotropic ground substance and
fibers symmetrically arranged in two helically distributed families which are mechanically …

Application of the extended Fourier amplitude sensitivity testing (FAST) method to inflated, axial stretched, and residually stressed cylinders

H Asghari, H Topol, B Markert, J Merodio - Applied Mathematics and …, 2023 - Springer
This paper is dedicated to applying the Fourier amplitude sensitivity test (FAST) method to
the problem of mixed extension and inflation of a circular cylindrical tube in the presence of …

Remarks on bifurcation of an inflated and extended swellable isotropic tube

S Moradalizadeh, H Topol… - … and Mechanics of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We consider a tubular membrane whose mechanical behavior is defined by a strain energy
density function that combines the neo-Hookean model with the Demiray model. Both, the …

A phase field approach to fracture for hyperelastic and visco-hyperelastic materials applied to pre-stressed cylindrical structures

A Valverde-González, J Reinoso, NK Jha… - Mechanics of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this investigation, the mechanical modeling of nonlinear visco-hyperelastic residually
stressed materials obtained from an invariant-based constitutive energy framework is …