WIT Press


Boundary Element Analysis Of Hyper-elastic Elastomeric Materials

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

32

Pages

12

Published

2002

Size

510 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/BE020311

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

M Bayliss & A El-Zafrany

Abstract

This paper develops the necessary derivations for the boundary element method as applied to elastomers and presents a comparison between analytical and numerical solutions to the standard patch test using the Mooney-Rivlin strain energy formulation. The case of a pressurised thick walled cylinder is also examined to test for symmetry of the displacement solution

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