Publication informationInternational Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 47 (2): 268-272Publisher Elsevier Item record/more information http://hdl.handle.net/10197/4602
Publisher's statementThis is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (47, 2, (2012) ABSTRACT Strain measures consistent with the classical, infinitesimal form of the strain-energy function are obtained within the context of isotropic, homogeneous, compressible, non-linear elasticity. It will be shown that there are two distinct families of such measures. One family has already been much studied in the literature, the most important member being the strains whose principal values are a function only of the corresponding principal stretches. The second family of strains appears new. The motivation for studying such strains is the intuitive expectation that, for at least moderate deformations, a good fit with experimental data from material characterisation tests will be obtained with the corresponding strain-energy functions. In particular, there is the expectation that such models could prove useful for the modelling of biological soft tissue, whose physiological response is characterised by moderate strains. It will be shown that this is indeed the case for simple tension tests on porcine brain tissue.