Hard challenge with soft materials: Understanding large deformation and fracture behavior

Rubber has been recognized as an engineering material since the mid 1800s. It is well known that the mechanical behavior of rubber is complicated due to nonlinearity, hyperelasticity and its great sensitivity to the effects of temperature, environment and strain history...Fil: Frontini, Patricia Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - CONICET - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales (i); Argentina