https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050990
Non-linear elastic behavior of light fibrous materials
Laboratoire "Surface du Verre et Interfaces" (UMR 125 CNRS/Saint-Gobain) , CNRS/Saint-Gobain, 39 Quai Lucien Lefranc, 93303 Aubervilliers Cedex, France
Corresponding author: a maud.baudequin@sgr.saint-gobain.com
Received:
2
February
1999
Published online: 15 November 1999
Light fibrous materials composed of elastic fibers display a non-linear
elastic behavior, where the non-linearity is due to the increase in the
number of contacts between fibers under compression. Testing glass wool
under compression up to 95% shows such a strongly non-linear behavior.
A model is proposed to account for the divergence of the compressive stress
σ as the strain ε approaches a threshold compression
, with
.
Quantitative analysis of the experimental data on glass wool is fully
consistent with this result.
PACS: 62.20.-x – Mechanical properties of solids / 62.20.Dc – Elasticity, elastic constants
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