Constitutive modelling of hyperelastic rubber‐like materials accounting for damage

Abstract

Abstract Adhesives are used in numerous applications such as in the automotive industry, packaging industry, civil engineering, and many others. The use of multi‐side bonded joints becomes increasingly common in glass‐façade structures instead of bolted point fixings, inter alia, for aesthetic reasons. For the simulation of glass‐façade components, it is essential to investigate constitutive models which ensure a representation of rubber‐like material behaviour. Several hyperelastic material models are available in the literature, but most of them are not suitable to represent large deformations, damage (i.e. Mullins‐Effect), and multiaxial stress states all in one. Hence, the main goal of the present work is to develop a material model which exhibits the mentioned properties.