A comparison between active strain and active stress in transversely isotropic hyperelastic materials

DOI10.1007/S10659-018-9708-ZzbMATH Open1425.74077arXiv1709.04977OpenAlexW2964134602WikidataQ128762414 ScholiaQ128762414MaRDI QIDQ2010705FDOQ2010705

Davide Riccobelli, A. Musesti, G. Giantesio

Publication date: 27 November 2019

Published in: Journal of Elasticity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Active materials are media for which deformations can occur in absence of loads, given an external stimulus. Two approaches to the modeling of such materials are mainly used in literature, both based on the introduction of a new tensor: an additive stress $mathsf{P}_{e}xtact$ in the active stress case and a multiplicative strain $mathsf{F}_a$ in the active strain one. Aim of this paper is the comparison between the two approaches on simple shears. Considering an incompressible and transversely isotropic material, we design constitutive relations for $mathsf{P}_{e}xtact$ and $mathsf{F}_a$ so that they produce the same results for a uniaxial deformation along the symmetry axis. We then study the two approaches in the case of a simple shear deformation. In a hyperelastic setting, we show that the two approaches produce different stress components along a simple shear, unless some necessary conditions on the strain energy density are fulfilled. However, such conditions are very restrictive and rule out the usual elastic strain energy functionals. Active stress and active strain therefore produce different results in shear, even if they both fit uniaxial data. Our results show that experimental data on the stress-stretch response on uniaxial deformations are not enough to establish which activation approach can capture better the mechanics of active materials. We conclude that other types of deformations, beyond the uniaxial one, should be taken into consideration in the modeling of such materials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04977

zbMATH Keywords

hyperelasticitysimple shearactivation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomechanical solid mechanics (74L15) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Anisotropy in solid mechanics (74E10)

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• OpenCMISS

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