Analysis of Fabric Deformation in a Roll-Making Operation Part III: Effect of Viscoelasticity

1992 ◽  
Vol 62 (11) ◽  
pp. 669-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. K. Ghosh ◽  
H. Peng ◽  
P. Banks-Lee

The relationship between various parameters of roll making, fabric properties, and the resultant stresses developed within a fabric roll has been discussed in Parts I and II of this series. A discrete continuum model was used to describe fabric deformation during roll making. In the present model, the fabric is assumed to be in plane stress state and the effect in the filling direction is entirely neglected. The fabric is considered as anisotropic in warp and thickness directions. The effect of fabric viscoelasticity in the warp direction is also considered. A simple two-term Maxwell viscoelastic model is used to describe the fabric viscoelastic behavior. The stress relaxation process within fabric rolls during and after roll formation is discussed through numerical examples.

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwia D. Łagan ◽  
Aneta Liber-Kneć

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the viscoelastic response in the low and high physiological strain with the use of experimental and modeling approach. Methods: Viscoelastic response in the low, transition and high physiologic strain (3, 6 and 9%) with consideration of simulated biological environment (0.9% saline solution, 37 °C) was measured in relaxation tests. Preconditioning of tendons was considered in the testing protocol and the applied range of load was obtained from tensile testing. The quasi-linear viscoelasticity theory was used to fit experimental data to obtain constants (moduli and times of relaxation), which can be used for description of the viscoelastic behavior of tendons. The exponential non-linear elastic representation of the stress response in ramp strain was also estimated. Results: Differences between stress relaxation process can be seen between tendons stretched to the physiological strain range (3%) and exceeding this range (6 and 9%). The strains of 6% and 9% showed a similar stress relaxation trend displaying relatively rapid relaxation for the first 70 seconds, whereas the lowest strain of 3% displayed relatively slow relaxation. Conclusions: Results of the model fitting showed that the quasi-linear viscoelastic model gives the best fit in the range of low physiological strain level.


Author(s):  
Frances M. Davis ◽  
Raffaella De Vita

Tendons are viscoelastic materials which undergo stress relaxation when held at a constant strain. The most successful model used to describe the viscoelastic behavior of tendons is the quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV) model [1]. In the QLV model, the relaxation function is assumed to be a separable function of time and strain. Recently, this assumption has been shown to be invalid for tendons [2] thus suggesting the need for new nonlinear viscoelastic models.


2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 580-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Baek ◽  
P. B. Wells ◽  
K. R. Rajagopal ◽  
J. D. Humphrey

Supra-physiological temperatures are increasingly being used to treat many different soft tissue diseases and injuries. To identify improved clinical treatments, however, there is a need for better information on the effect of the mechanics on the thermal damage process as well as the effect of the incurred damage on the subsequent mechanical properties. In this paper, we report the first biaxial data on the stress relaxation behavior of a collagenous tissue before and after thermal damage. Based on a two-dimensional finite strain viscoelastic model, which incorporates an exponential elastic response, it is shown that the thermal damage can significantly decrease the characteristic time for stress relaxation and the stress residual.


2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingkai Guo ◽  
Rui Xiao ◽  
Harold S. Park ◽  
Thao D. Nguyen

In this paper, we investigated the temperature-dependent viscoelastic behavior of dielectric elastomers (DEs) and the effects of viscoelasticity on the electro-actuation behavior. We performed dynamic thermomechanical analysis to measure the master curve of the stress relaxation function and the temperature dependence of the relaxation time of VHB 4905, a commonly used DE. The master curve was applied to calculate the viscoelastic spectrum for a discrete multiprocess finite deformation viscoelastic model. In addition, we performed uniaxial creep and stress relaxation experiments and electrical actuation experiments under different prestretch conditions. The measured spectrum was applied to predict the experimental results. Generally, the model produced good quantitative agreement with both the viscoelastic and electro-actuation experiments, which shows the necessity of using a multiprocess relaxation model to accurately capture the viscoelastic response for VHB. However, the model underpredicted the electro-actuated creep strain for high voltages near the pull-in instability. We attributed the discrepancies to the complex boundary conditions that were not taken into account in the simulation. We also investigated the failure of VHB membrane caused by viscoelastic creep when prestretched and subjected to constant voltage loading. The experimental time to failure for the specimens decreased exponentially with voltage, which agreed well with the predictions of the model.


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 446-453
Author(s):  
Hao-Hsun Hsu ◽  
Jia-Lin Tsai

Abstract In this study, the hyper-viscoelastic behavior of adhesive films was characterized. A constitutive model was developed by combining the Mooney–Rivlin hyperelastic model and a viscoelastic model expressed in terms of the Prony series to describe the constitutive behavior of the adhesive films. The material parameters of the developed constitutive model were determined through single-step stress relaxation tests conducted for 30 min at four strain levels: 100%, 200%, 300% and 400%. Based on the reduced gradient method, the optimized material parameters were then evaluated by curve fitting the experimental data. To validate the proposed constitutive model, we performed the tensile tests at different strain rates from 5 × 10−4 to 5 × 10−1 s−1 and the multistep stress relaxation tests on the adhesive films. The model predictions and experimental data were in good agreement. Thus, the proposed hyper-viscoelastic constitutive model with parameters determined through single-step stress relaxation tests is effective in characterizing the mechanical behavior of adhesive films.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Xu ◽  
Haiyue Li ◽  
Yanhang Zhang

The macroscopic viscoelastic behavior of collagen gel was studied through relaxation time distribution spectrum obtained from stress relaxation tests and viscoelastic constitutive modeling. Biaxial stress relaxation tests were performed to characterize the viscoelastic behavior of collagen gel crosslinked with Genipin solution. Relaxation time distribution spectrum was obtained from the stress relaxation data by inverse Laplace transform. Peaks at the short (0.3 s–1 s), medium (3 s–90 s), and long relaxation time (>200 s) were observed in the continuous spectrum, which likely correspond to relaxation mechanisms involve fiber, inter-fibril, and fibril sliding. The intensity of the long-term peaks increases with higher initial stress levels indicating the engagement of collagen fibrils at higher levels of tissue strain. We have shown that the stress relaxation behavior can be well simulated using a viscoelastic model with viscous material parameters obtained directly from the relaxation time spectrum. Results from the current study suggest that the relaxation time distribution spectrum is useful in connecting the macro-level viscoelastic behavior of collagen matrices with micro-level structure changes.


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Vena ◽  
D. Gastaldi ◽  
R. Contro

This paper presents a constitutive model for predicting the nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of soft biological tissues and in particular of ligaments. The constitutive law is a generalization of the well-known quasi-linear viscoelastic theory (QLV) in which the elastic response of the tissue and the time-dependent properties are independently modeled and combined into a convolution time integral. The elastic behavior, based on the definition of anisotropic strain energy function, is extended to the time-dependent regime by means of a suitably developed time discretization scheme. The time-dependent constitutive law is based on the postulate that a constituent-based relaxation behavior may be defined through two different stress relaxation functions: one for the isotropic matrix and one for the reinforcing (collagen) fibers. The constitutive parameters of the viscoelastic model have been estimated by curve fitting the stress relaxation experiments conducted on medial collateral ligaments (MCLs) taken from the literature, whereas the predictive capability of the model was assessed by simulating experimental tests different from those used for the parameter estimation. In particular, creep tests at different maximum stresses have been successfully simulated. The proposed nonlinear viscoelastic model is able to predict the time-dependent response of ligaments described in experimental works (Bonifasi-Lista et al., 2005, J. Orthopaed. Res., 23, pp. 67–76;Hingorani et al., 2004, Ann. Biomed. Eng., 32, pp. 306–312;Provenzano et al., 2001, Ann. Biomed. Eng., 29, pp. 908–214;Weiss et al., 2002, J. Biomech., 35, pp. 943–950). In particular, the nonlinear viscoelastic response which implies different relaxation rates for different applied strains, as well as different creep rates for different applied stresses and direction-dependent relaxation behavior, can be described.


2021 ◽  
pp. 109963622199386
Author(s):  
Tianshu Wang ◽  
Licheng Guo

In this paper, a shear stiffness model for corrugated-core sandwich structures is proposed. The bonding area is discussed independently. The core is thought to be hinged on the skins with torsional stiffness. The analytical model was verified by FEM solution. Compared with the previous studies, the new model can predict the valley point of the shear stiffness at which the relationship between the shear stiffness and the angle of the core changes from negative correlation to positive correlation. The valley point increases when the core becomes stronger. For the structure with a angle of the core smaller than counterpart for the valley point, the existing analytical formulations may significantly underestimate the shear stiffness of the structure with strong skins. The results obtained by some previous models may be only 10 persent of that of the present model, which is supported by the FEM model.


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