par Gloria, Antoine ;Le Tallec, P.;Vidrascu, M.
Référence Continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, 10.1007/s00161-012-0281-6
Publication Publié, 2013
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : Since the pioneering work by Treloar, many models based on polymer chain statistics have been proposed to describe rubber elasticity. Recently, Alicandro, Cicalese, and the first author rigorously derived a continuum theory of rubber elasticity from a discrete model by variational convergence. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we further physically motivate this model and complete the analysis by numerical simulations. Second, in order to compare this model to the literature, we present in a common language two other representative types of models, specify their underlying assumptions, check their mathematical properties, and compare them to Treloar's experiments. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.