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Table 1 Cauchy stress for special cases of stress states

From: Non-contact experimental methods to characterise the response of a hyper-elastic membrane

Stress state

Stretch ratios

Neo-Hookean

Mooney-Rivlin

Equi-bi-axial

λ 1=λ 2=λ

\(\sigma _{1} = \sigma _{2} = 2C_{1}\left (\lambda ^{2}-\frac {1}{\lambda ^{4}}\right)\)

\(\sigma _{1} = \sigma _{2} = 2\left (\lambda ^{2} - \frac {1}{\lambda ^{4}} \right) \left (C_{1} + C_{2}\lambda ^{2} \right)\)

 

\(\lambda _{3} = \frac {1}{\lambda ^{2}}\)

σ 3=0

σ 3=0

Uni-axial

λ 3=λ

σ 1=σ 2=0

σ 1=σ 2=0

 

\(\lambda _{1} = \lambda _{2} = \frac {1}{\sqrt {\lambda }}\)

\(\sigma _{3} = 2C_{1}\left (\lambda ^{2} - \frac {1}{\lambda }\right)\)

\(\sigma _{3} = 2\left (\lambda - \frac {1}{\lambda ^{2}} \right) \left (C_{1} \lambda + C_{2} \right)\)