Likely chirality of stochastic anisotropic hyperelastic tubes

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Woolley, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Goriely, Alain 2019. Likely chirality of stochastic anisotropic hyperelastic tubes. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 114 , pp. 9-20. 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2019.04.004

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Abstract

When an elastic tube reinforced with helical fibres is inflated, its ends rotate. In large deformations, the amount and chirality of rotation is highly non-trivial, as it depends on the choice of strain–energy density and the arrangements of the fibres. For anisotropic hyperelastic tubes where the material parameters are single-valued constants, the problem has been satisfactorily addressed. However, in many systems, the material parameters are not precisely known, and it is therefore more appropriate to treat them as random variables. The problem is then to understand chirality in a probabilistic framework. Here, we develop a procedure for examining the elastic responses of a hyperelastic cylindrical tube of stochastic anisotropic material, where the material parameters are spatially-independent random variables defined by probability density functions. The tube is subjected to uniform dead loading consisting of internal pressure, axial tension and torque. Assuming that the tube wall is thin and that the resulting deformation is the combined inflation, extension and torsion from the reference circular cylindrical configuration to a deformed circular cylindrical state, we derive the probabilities of radial expansion or contraction, and of right-handed or left-handed torsion. We refer to these stochastic behaviours as ‘likely inflation’ and ‘likely chirality’, respectively.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Mathematics
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0020-7462
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 April 2019
Date of Acceptance:	11 April 2019
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2023 00:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/121760

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