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Mechanical behaviour of natural cow leather in tension

Jiashi YangZheng LiDenis Paudecerf

subject

Materials scienceCreepMechanics of MaterialsTension (physics)Mechanical EngineeringUltimate tensile strengthComputational MechanicsDeformation (engineering)Composite materialMicrostructureBeam (structure)ViscoelasticityTensile testing

description

We study experimentally the microstructure and mechanical behavior of natural cow leather. Tensile tests are performed using leather strips to observe their deformation, creep and failure. It is found that the microstructure of cow leather is a layered, complicated network of fibers of different sizes from a few to a few hundreds of nanometers in diameter. They show nonlinear stress-strain relations and viscoelastic behavior. The effect of humidity is also examined. A simple theoretical model of a multilayered beam is proposed to describe the most basic behavior in tension.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2009-02-01Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0894-9166(09)60088-4