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This paper is concerned with investigation of the effects of strain-stiffening on the response of solid circular cylinders in the combined deformation of torsion superimposed on axial extension. The cylinders are composed of incompressible isotropic nonlinearly elastic materials. Our primary focus is on materials that undergo severe strain-stiffening in the stress-stretch response. In particular, we consider two particular phenomenological constitutive models for such materials that reflect limiting chain extensibility at the molecular level. The axial stretch γ and twist that can be sustained in cylinders composed of such materials are shown to be constrained in a coupled fashion. It is shown that, in the absence of an additional axial force, a transition value γ=γ t of the axial stretch exists such that for γ<γ t , the stretched cylinder tends to elongate on twisting whereas for γ>γ t , the stretched cylinder tends to shorten on twisting. These results are in sharp contrast with those for classical models such as the Mooney-Rivlin (and neo-Hookean) models that predict that the stretched circular cylinder always tends to further elongate on twisting. We also obtain results for materials modeled by the well-known exponential strain-energy widely used in biomechanics applications. This model reflects a strain-stiffening that is less abrupt than that for the limiting chain extensibility models. Surprisingly, it turns out that the results in this case are somewhat more complicated. For a fixed stiffening parameter, provided that the stretch is sufficiently small, the stretched bar always tends to elongate on twisting in the absence of an additional axial force. However, for sufficiently large stretch, the cylinder tends to shorten on undergoing sufficiently small twist but then tends to elongate on further twisting. These results are of interest in view of the widespread use of exponential models in the context of the mechanics of soft biological tissues. The special case of pure torsion is also briefly considered. In this case, the resultant axial force required to maintain pure torsion is compressive for all the models discussed here. In the absence of such a force, the bar would elongate on twisting reflecting the celebrated Poynting effect.
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Kanner, L.M., Horgan, C.O. On Extension and Torsion of Strain-Stiffening Rubber-Like Elastic Circular Cylinders. J Elasticity 93, 39–61 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-008-9164-2
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Keywords
- Strain-stiffening isotropic nonlinearly elastic materials
- Incompressible rubber-like materials and soft biological tissues
- Extension and torsion of solid circular cylinders
- Pure torsion