Author(s): Mendonça, Bebiana Alexandra Bragança ; Ribeiro, J.E. ; Lopes, Hernani ; Martins, Pedro ; Vaz, M.A.P. ; Gomes, J.F. Silva
Date: 2013
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/10284
Origin: Biblioteca Digital da UPB
Subject(s): Polydimethylsiloxane; Hyper-elastic; Digital image correlation; Finite element method
The main goal of this work is the characterization of the hyper-elastic mechanical behaviour of PDMS. The special specimens of PDMS (Sylgard® 184) were tested in a bi-axial tensile machine. During the tensile test was used a commercial digital image correlation system (ARAMIS of GOM) to obtain de displacement and strain fields. These measurements are compared with numerical simulations which use the most popular algorithms of constitutive models.
