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    Elastic Instability of Pseudo-Elastic Rubber Balloons

    Ren Jiusheng1

    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.7, No.1, pp. 25-32, 2008, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2008.007.025

    Abstract Elastic instability for the inflation and deflation of a thin-walled spherical rubber balloon is examined within the framework of finite pseudo-elasticity. When a spherical rubber balloon is inflated, it is subject to a complex deformation after a pressure maximum has been obtained. One part of the balloon is lightly stretched while the remainder becomes highly stretched. So an aspherical deformation is observed after the initial spherical inflation. A pseudo-elastic strain energy function including a damage variable which may model the loading, unloading and reloading of rubber is used. The balloon is idealized as an elastic More >

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