Parameter Estimation of Viscoplastic Polymers
Application ID: 117671
This tutorial model demonstrates how to estimate the material parameters of a viscoplastic Bergstrom–Boyce model suitable for nonequilibrium modeling of rubber-like materials. The data used for parameter estimation consist of cyclic uniaxial tension and compression tests at two different strain rates. After estimating the primary model parameters, the model formulation is extended to also include temperature dependence using additional data from tensile tests at different temperatures.
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- COMSOL Multiphysics® and
- Nonlinear Structural Materials Module and
- either the MEMS Module, or Structural Mechanics Module
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