Abstract: The energy release rate associated with the Mode I and Mode III crack problems for an infinite, nonlinearly elastic, incompressible body are estimated. The calculation adopts an approximation ...

Abstract: In this work we use a consistent homogenization theory approach to study the overall behavior of a highly porous elastic material at finite levels of strain. Although the matrix material in ...

Abstract: The instabilities of a finitely deformed Blatz-Ko material reinforced with fibers in a single direction (an anisotropic, nonlinearly elastic material) are examined. The loading is one of plane ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with assessing the extent of Saint-Venant end effects within the theory of small deformations superposed on a large deformation for plane strain of homogeneous, isotropic, ...