A question was recently put to us regarding the effects of cyclic hydrostatic loading on rubber. In hydrostatic loading, no shearing stresses are present, and the 3 principal stresses all have the same value p. For this case, all 3 Mohr’s circles degenerate to a single point on the normal stress axis...please click on linked document for complete information with technical illustrations.

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