Conductive silicone rubber has great advantages for strain sensing applications. The electrical behavior of the elastomeric material is rate-dependent and exhibit hysteresis upon cyclic loading. Several constitutive models were developed for mechanical simulation of this material upon loading and unloading. One of the successful approaches to model the time-dependent behavior of elastomers is B...

This study investigated the friction between surgical instruments and bone to aid improvements to instrument design. The bases of orthopaedic surgical instruments are usually made of metal, especially stainless steel. Silicone elastomer was chosen as an alternate biocompatible material, which would be compliant on the bone surface when used as the base of an instrument. The coefficient of stati...

The bulk modulus is a fundamental elastic property that quantifies material’s resistance to changing volume and critical in loading situations where significant hydrostatic stresses develop. Rubbery polymer networks represent class of nearly incompressible materials whose orders magnitude larger than the tensile modulus. current physical understanding suggests it insensitive structural features...