Abstract

We study the crease instability of an incompressible Gent-Gent elastomer under general loading conditions. The Gent-Gent model has two distinct characteristics: the logarithmic nonlinearity triggered by I2 energy term and the strain hardening due to limiting chain extensibility. By performing finite element analysis combined with an evaluation of surface tension, we investigate the effects of the two characteristics on the critical creasing onset and the creasing onset delayed by surface tension. The results show that uniaxial compression induces logarithmic nonlinearity that accelerates the critical creasing onset, whereas equibiaxial compression hastens the initiation of strain hardening that delays the critical creasing onset. In addition, logarithmic nonlinearity mitigates the delay in creasing onset caused by surface tension under the uniaxial condition, and strain hardening suppresses creasing in cooperation with surface tension under the equibiaxial condition. Conversely, under the plane strain condition, two characteristics have little effect on the creasing onset delayed by surface tension.

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