Constitutive Modelling and Failure Prediction for Silicone Adhesives in Façade Design by Michael DrassEnglish | PDF | 2020 | 304 Pages | ISBN : 3658292547 | 19.86 MB
This book provides readers with an elementary understanding of the material behavior of structural silicones in façades. Based on extensive experimental investigations on a transparent structural silicone adhesive (TSSA), the material behavior, failure, and microscopic effects such as stress whitening, cavitation failure, and the Mullins effect are analyzed. In turn, novel hyperelastic material models are developed to account for nonlinear material behavior under arbitrary deformations.