Hyperelastic constitutive analysis of silicone sheet as skin substitute / Siti Noor Azizzati Mohd Noor

Silicone Rubber is a potential skin substitute material, whereby its mechanical behaviour is also difficult to characterize. This study pioneers in its attempt to investigate the mechanical properties of Silicone Rubber materials via the integration of experimental, numerical and analytical approach...

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Main Author: Mohd Noor, Siti Noor Azizzati
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spelling my-uitm-ir.151522022-03-09T07:23:59Z Hyperelastic constitutive analysis of silicone sheet as skin substitute / Siti Noor Azizzati Mohd Noor 2015 Mohd Noor, Siti Noor Azizzati Rubber industry Silicone Rubber is a potential skin substitute material, whereby its mechanical behaviour is also difficult to characterize. This study pioneers in its attempt to investigate the mechanical properties of Silicone Rubber materials via the integration of experimental, numerical and analytical approaches adapting hyperelastic constitutive equations. Initially, uniaxial tensile test is performed to measure the stress-stretch response of two types of Silicone Rubber based materials (i.e. Normal Grade and Food Grade) employing two testing standards (i.e. ASTM D2209 and ASTM D412). Three hyperelastic constitutive models (i.e. neo-Hookean, MooneyRivlin and Ogden) have been adopted to represent the materials behaviour and properties in terms of material constants for each Silicone Rubber which have been determined via numerical and analytical approaches. Engineering stress-stretch «()E A,) curve plot from numerical and analytical approach has been fitted to the experimental data. Results indicate that numerical approach provides better results than analytical approach in fitting the experimental data whereby the Mooney-Rivlin model gives the most accurate results to the experimental data compared to neoHookean and Ogden models. Therefore it can be concluded that numerical approach using the Mooney-Rivlin model is the closely hyperelastic constitutive model in representing the mechanical properties of Silicone Rubber materials 2015 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15152/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15152/1/TM_SITI%20NOOR%20AZIZZATI%20MOHD%20NOOR%20EM%2015_5.pdf text en public mphil masters Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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topic Rubber industry
spellingShingle Rubber industry
Mohd Noor, Siti Noor Azizzati
Hyperelastic constitutive analysis of silicone sheet as skin substitute / Siti Noor Azizzati Mohd Noor
description Silicone Rubber is a potential skin substitute material, whereby its mechanical behaviour is also difficult to characterize. This study pioneers in its attempt to investigate the mechanical properties of Silicone Rubber materials via the integration of experimental, numerical and analytical approaches adapting hyperelastic constitutive equations. Initially, uniaxial tensile test is performed to measure the stress-stretch response of two types of Silicone Rubber based materials (i.e. Normal Grade and Food Grade) employing two testing standards (i.e. ASTM D2209 and ASTM D412). Three hyperelastic constitutive models (i.e. neo-Hookean, MooneyRivlin and Ogden) have been adopted to represent the materials behaviour and properties in terms of material constants for each Silicone Rubber which have been determined via numerical and analytical approaches. Engineering stress-stretch «()E A,) curve plot from numerical and analytical approach has been fitted to the experimental data. Results indicate that numerical approach provides better results than analytical approach in fitting the experimental data whereby the Mooney-Rivlin model gives the most accurate results to the experimental data compared to neoHookean and Ogden models. Therefore it can be concluded that numerical approach using the Mooney-Rivlin model is the closely hyperelastic constitutive model in representing the mechanical properties of Silicone Rubber materials
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qualification_name Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)
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author Mohd Noor, Siti Noor Azizzati
author_facet Mohd Noor, Siti Noor Azizzati
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title Hyperelastic constitutive analysis of silicone sheet as skin substitute / Siti Noor Azizzati Mohd Noor
title_short Hyperelastic constitutive analysis of silicone sheet as skin substitute / Siti Noor Azizzati Mohd Noor
title_full Hyperelastic constitutive analysis of silicone sheet as skin substitute / Siti Noor Azizzati Mohd Noor
title_fullStr Hyperelastic constitutive analysis of silicone sheet as skin substitute / Siti Noor Azizzati Mohd Noor
title_full_unstemmed Hyperelastic constitutive analysis of silicone sheet as skin substitute / Siti Noor Azizzati Mohd Noor
title_sort hyperelastic constitutive analysis of silicone sheet as skin substitute / siti noor azizzati mohd noor
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
granting_department Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
publishDate 2015
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15152/1/TM_SITI%20NOOR%20AZIZZATI%20MOHD%20NOOR%20EM%2015_5.pdf
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