Mechanical-Geometrical Modeling Of The Hyperelastic Materials At Uniaxial Stretching

Hyperelastic materials, such as rubber, occupy an important place in the design and operation of various technological equipment and machines. The article analyzed the deformation behavior of hyperelastic materials using a mechanical-geometric model. The method of mechanical-geometric modeling is a new method for obtaining constitutive relations and strain energy density functions for nonlinear elastic solids. It is based on physically and geometrically consistent prerequisites. The resulting models can describe broad classes of nonlinear elastic materials (both isotropic and anisotropic) depending on the mechanical and geometric properties “embedded” in them at the first stages of design. This paper discusses two basic types of models based on different initial geometry. The mechanical parameters of the models are constants, and the models themselves are considered in a statement corresponding to isotropic hyperelastic materials. The article presents the most common diagrams of deformation of artificial and natural rubbers, as well as steel. Hyperelastic materials, depending on the task, can be described in the nonlinear theory of elasticity as ideal incompressible, or as weakly compressible. Parameters of expressions of strain energy density functions of mechanical-geometric models obtained for cases of incompressible and weakly compressible continuous solids were identified. Stretch diagrams and diagrams of the transverse deformation function of the obtained mechanical-geometric models for the two cases mentioned above are plotted. The extension diagram for the model with parameters corresponding to the classic structural material of the steel type is also shown. Comments are given on the possibility of further paths of developing the method of mechanical-geometric modeling to obtain results not only in the field of nonlinear theory of elasticity, but also viscoelasticity.