A tabulated formulation of hyperelasticity with rate effects and damage

The simulation of rubber-like materials is usually based on hyperelasticity. If strain-rate dependency has to be considered viscous dampers also have to be taken into account in the rheological model. A disadvantage of such a description is time-consuming parameter identification associated with the damping constants. In this paper, a tabulated formulation is presented which allows the fast generation of input data based on uniaxial static and dynamic tensile tests at different strain rates. Unloading, i.e. forming a hysteresis loop, can also be modeled easily based on a damage formulation. We show the theoretical background and algorithmic setup of our model that has been implemented in the explicit finite element program LS-DYNA [1-3]. Apart from purely numerical examples, the validation of a soft and a hard rubber under loading and subsequent unloading at different strain rates is shown.

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