Mooney-Rivlin solid 2026-10-14
An incompressible Mooney-Rivlin solid has strain energy density , with right Cauchy-Green deformation tensor , and when . It extends the neo-Hookean solid by a second invariant. A convention means , ; the minus sign must be retained when comparing material constants.
Use . In cylindrical orthonormal bases the principal stretches are , and . Incompressibility gives
Integrate from the inner surface to obtain the inflation and extension of an incompressible tube kinematics
In particular . The radial principal stretch is , so the reference-volume strain energy density is with the three arguments .
For reference length , the stored energy is , where
Let denote the total axial resultant acting on the material annulus. The work of the inner pressure on the cylindrical wall is , and axial work is . Reversible virtual work therefore says
The independent derivatives of the circumferential stretch are
Equating the coefficients of and proves
and the corresponding axial resultant is
Here holds fixed. If means the independently applied load on pressurized closed ends, the pressure also does axial end-cap work . Equivalently its complete work is . In that convention,
If includes the end-pressure resultant, it is itself. Stating this distinction is necessary because the ends are not specified; the pressure formula is the same in both conventions.
For the specified Mooney-Rivlin solid convention, differentiating the constrained strain energy density gives
Thus
Put . If , yields . The factor cancels because
The limits are and , so direct integration gives
For , all circumferential stretches equal and the original integrand vanishes, so this formula still holds, with . This also verifies its continuous limiting value without dividing by zero.
Use reference cylindrical coordinates and current coordinates . The prescribed map has , and . In the corresponding orthonormal cylindrical bases, differentiate physical line elements to obtain the deformation gradient
The radial direction is an eigenvector of the right Cauchy-Green deformation tensor with eigenvalue . Its other block is
Its trace is and its determinant is . Thus its eigenvalues solve . The principal stretches are the positive square roots of these eigenvalues:
Their product is one, independently checking incompressibility.
The strain energy density is per reference volume, so stored energy per initial cylinder height is . The end rotation is and the current height is , giving applied power per initial height . For quasistatic reversible loading, equate this with for independent changes of . This proves the torque and axial force of a twisted incompressible cylinder formulas
In the second derivative hold , the twist per initial length, fixed. Holding twist per current length instead would mix the generalized forces.
For the Mooney-Rivlin solid, compute invariants directly from rather than differentiating individual eigenvalue square roots:
The second identity follows from when . Retain the paper's minus sign on its term. Integrating and gives
Consequently
As checks, untwisted unit stretch gives , and setting recovers the neo-Hookean solid formulas. A convention with a positive second-invariant coefficient corresponds to replacing this by its negative.