On modeling fracture of soft polymers

A Review of Physically Based and Thermodynamically Based ...

Keywords: constitutive modeling of soft materials, mechanical properties of soft materials ... details of the network alteration (fracture of ...

Fracture of Soft Materials with Interfaces: Phase Field Modeling ...

By analogy to the interface fracture in the linear elastic regime, based on the calculation results of the hybrid strategy, some studies systematically report ...

Why It's Hard to Break Plastics - Physics Magazine

In the 1960s, theorists came up with a model of polymer fracture based on the rupture of individual chains at the crack tip [2]. “The problem is ...

Teilprojekt P8 - Fracture in Polymer Composites: Meso to Macro

The aim of the project is to study the influence of different mesoscopic parameters, as particle volume fraction, on the macroscopic fracture properties of ...

Tear Fracture Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Conducting Polymer ...

The development of the tear fracture model adopts a well-known Griffith criterion along with the thermodynamically consistent continuum mechanics approach.

A Model of the Fracture of Double Network Gels | Macromolecules

The model is based on the Lake−Thomas concepts of the amount of energy dissipated on failure of a polymer strand mentioned above but suggests ...

An extreme toughening mechanism for soft materials - Zhao Lab – MIT

Hui, Fracture toughness of hydrogels: Measurement and interpretation, Soft Matter, 2016, 12,. 8069–8086. 16 A. G. Evans, Perspective on the ...

Phase field modeling of fracture in rubbery and glassy polymers at ...

This work presents the application of a fracture phase field model towards the modeling of crack initiation and growth in rubbery and glassy polymers at finite ...

A Phase Field Model for the Damage and Fracture of Multiple ...

In this work, to bridge the microscopic damage and the macroscopic fracture of multiple network elastomers in the finite deformation model, we incorporate the ...

How double dynamics affects the large deformation and fracture ...

We also provide examples on the unique deformation behavior of physical double-network gels made from triblock polymers. Thereafter, examples of ...

New Approaches to Modeling Failure and Fracture of Rubberlike ...

By bounding the strain energy via energy limiters we show, for instance, how to explain cavitation, analyze strength of soft composites, and predict direction ...

Crack‐tip blunting and its implications on fracture of soft materials

This phenomenon, known as elastic crack blunting, is peculiar of rubber-like polymers and soft biological tissues, such as skin, vessel walls, and tendons.

An adaptive quasicontinuum approach for modeling fracture in ...

Fracture toughness of soft materials with rate-independent hysteresis. Qi, Yuan; Caillard, Julien; Long, Rong; Journal of the Mechanics and ...

Modeling the Mechanics and Functionality of Soft Polymer Composites

Viscoelasticity is a dominant mechanical behavior found in most soft matter composites, particularly those with hydrogel matrix. This property causes the ...

Polymer Facture: Advantage of reconsidering fracture ... - YouTube

Presentation at the Symposium on Fracture of Soft Materials, Austin, TX, May 14, 2:30pm on Polymer Fracture. A typo on the first slide: ...

Computational modeling of fracture behavior of rubber-like materials

Given that their toughness and stretchability are their hallmark advantages, comprehending their fracture behavior is essential for designing ...

Fracture Mechanics of Soft Materials | iMechanica

The most prominent feature of soft material fracture is the large deformation around the tip of a sharp crack.

Special Issue: Fracture of Soft Materials | International Journal of ...

On the one hand, mechanics of soft materials involves large deformation, nonlinear elastic and inelastic properties, and chemo-mechanical coupling, all ...

Fundamental mechanisms of polymer damage and fracture across ...

Soft synthetic and biological polymers often inherit their mechanical properties from their underlying network structures.

A unifying finite strain modeling framework for anisotropic mixed ...

A unifying thermodynamically consistent anisotropic phase field formulation for modeling the mixed-mode fracture of hyperelastic soft materials like elastomers, ...