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Anisotropic viscoelastic models in large deformation for architectured membranes

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Due to the industrial elaboration process, membranes can have an in-plane anisotropic mechanical behaviour. In this paper, anisotropic membranes elaborated with two different materials were developed either by calendering or by inducing a force in one direction during the process. Experimental tests are developed to measure the differences of mechanical behaviour for both materials in different in-plane properties: stiffness, viscoelasticity and stress-softening. A uniaxial formulation is developed, and a homogenisation by means of a sphere unit approach is used to propose a three-dimensional formulation to represent the materials behaviour. An evolution of the mechanical parameters, depending on the direction, is imposed to reproduce the anisotropic behaviour of the materials. Comparison with experimental data highlights very promising results.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the French National Research Agency Program ANR-12-BS09-0008-01 SAMBA (Silicone Architectured Membranes for Biomedical Applications).

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  1. Universite Grenoble Alpes, TIMC-IMAG, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Marie Rebouah & Gregory Chagnon

  2. CNRS, TIMC-IMAG, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Marie Rebouah & Gregory Chagnon

  3. LRCCP, 60 Rue auber, Vitry sur Seine, France

    Patrick Heuillet

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Rebouah, M., Chagnon, G. & Heuillet, P. Anisotropic viscoelastic models in large deformation for architectured membranes. Mech Time-Depend Mater 21, 163–176 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11043-016-9324-x

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