Abstract: Bulk and interface material failures are often modeled via hyperelastic stored energy functions incorporating softening behavior. The softening is reversible due to the hyperelastic nature of the constitutive law and ...

Abstract: Rubber bearings, used for seismic isolation of structures, undergo large shear deformations during earthquakes as a result of the horizontal motion of the ground. However, the bearings are also compressed by the weight of ...

Abstract: Most soft materials resist volumetric changes much more than shape distortions. This experimental observation led to the introduction of the incompressibility constraint in the constitutive description of soft materials. ...