The Mullins effect remains a major challenge in order to provide good mechanical modeling
of the complex behavior of industrial rubber materials. It has been forty years since Mullins …

Nonlinear finite element analysis is widely used for structural optimization of the design and
the reliability analysis of complex elastomeric components. However, high-precision …

Soft polymer networks have seen an explosion of recent developments motivated by new
high tech applications in the biomedical field or in engineering. We present a candid and …

The large strain nonlinear stress–strain behavior of thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs)
exhibits strong hysteresis, rate dependence and softening. Thermoplastic polyurethanes are …

The present paper proposes a thorough comparison of twenty hyperelastic models for
rubber-like materials. The ability of these models to reproduce different types of loading …

Stress softening during initial loading cycles, known as the Mullins effect, and the residual
strain upon unloading are not accounted for when the mechanical properties of rubber are …

Conductive hydrogels have been extensively used in wearable skin sensors owing to their
outstanding flexibility, tissuelike compliance, and biocompatibility. However, the dehydration …

We present a large deformation viscoelasticity model for recently synthesized double
network hydrogels which consist of a covalently-crosslinked polyacrylamide network with …

Hyperelastic behavior of isotropic incompressible rubbers is studied to develop a strain
energy function which satisfies all the necessary characteristic properties of an efficient …