Necking in 2D incompressible polyconvex materials: theoretical framework and numerical simulations

We show examples of 2D incompressible isotropic homogeneous hyperelastic materials with a poly-convex stored-energy function that present necking. The construction of the stored-energy function of amaterial satisfying all those properties requires a fine search. We used the software Algencan to perf...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Mora-Corral, C., Strugaru, M.
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2017
Country:España
Institution:Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM)
Repository:BIRD. BCAM's Institutional Repository Data
OAI Identifier:oai:bird.bcamath.org:20.500.11824/685
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11824/685
https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbx006
Access Level:Embargoed access
Keyword:necking
polyconvex
hyperelasticity
incompressibility
Algencan
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Summary:We show examples of 2D incompressible isotropic homogeneous hyperelastic materials with a poly-convex stored-energy function that present necking. The construction of the stored-energy function of amaterial satisfying all those properties requires a fine search. We used the software Algencan to perform numerical experiments and visualize necking for the examples constructed. The algorithm is based on minimization of the elastic energy under the nonconvex constraint of incompressibility.