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A note on tensile instabilities and loss of ellipticity for a fiber-reinforced nonlinearly elastic solid. (English) Zbl 1146.74011

Summary: We examine the loss of ellipticity and the associated failure of fiber-reinforced compressible nonlinearly elastic solids under deformations leading to fiber extension. In particular, the analysis concerns a material model that consists of an isotropic base material augmented by a reinforcement depending on the fiber direction, and is referred to as a reinforcing model. We examine a reinforcement that introduces additional stiffness under simple shear deformations in the fiber direction. In previous contributions [see e.g. the first author and R. W. Ogden, Q. Appl. Math. 63, No. 2, 325–333 (2005; Zbl 1082.74004)] it was shown for this material that loss of ellipticity under uniaxial tensile loading in the fiber direction requires a non-convex reinforcing model. Here we generalize this result and show that loss of ellipticity under plane deformations not associated with uniaxial loading in the fiber direction but also creating fiber extension may occur for convex reinforcing models.

MSC:

74E30 Composite and mixture properties
74B20 Nonlinear elasticity
74G60 Bifurcation and buckling

Citations:

Zbl 1082.74004
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