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Multi-scale modelling of rubber-like materials and soft tissues:an appraisal

Puglisi, G.
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Saccomandi, G.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/13534
 https://doi.org/10.13025/28764
Publication Date
2016-03-01
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rubber elasticity, multi-scale models, entropic elasticity, limiting chain extensibility, nonlinear elasticity, polymer networks, ghent model, damage, deformation, hysteresis, mechanics, framework, crystallization
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Puglisi, G. Saccomandi, G. (2016). Multi-scale modelling of rubber-like materials and soft tissues:an appraisal. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science 472 (2187),
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We survey, in a partial way, multi-scale approaches for the modelling of rubber-like and soft tissues and compare them with classical macroscopic phenomenological models. Our aim is to show how it is possible to obtain practical mathematical models for the mechanical behaviour of these materials incorporating mesoscopic (network scale) information. Multi-scale approaches are crucial for the theoretical comprehension and prediction of the complex mechanical response of these materials. Moreover, such models are fundamental in the perspective of the design, through manipulation at the micro-and nano-scales, of new polymeric and bioinspired materials with exceptional macroscopic properties.
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The Royal Society
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