Setup and Characterisation

Relying on the ASTM D412 testing standards, the materials are characterised tensile testing of dumbell shaped specimens.

Fabrication of the Specimen

1. Mixing of the two parts
2. de-airing the mixture,
3. pouring into molds
4. curing for 24h,
5. measuring the dimensions,
6. inspecting the quality.

Tensile Tests Raw Data

Experimental tensile stress-strain data are available in the repository under the folder:

https://github.com/LucMarechal/Soft-Robotics-Materials/tree/master/Tensile%20Tests%20Data

Constitutive Model Curve Fitting Script

An open source online app is available to fit experimental tensile stress-strain data :

Written in Python, the code is availlable in the repository under the folder: https://github.com/LucMarechal/Soft-Robotics-Materials/tree/master/Python%20script%20fitting%20of%20hyperelastic%20constitutive%20models