Soft materials like tissues, prosthetics, gels and rubber are usually modeled as incompressible hyperelastic. The use of these in soft robotics surgical implants necessitates analysis their finite deformations. We study here plane-strain flexural deformations functionally graded, isotropic Mooney-Rivlin rectangular beams into circular arcs by using a member Ericksen’s family universal solutions...

This study presents a new procedure based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for identification of double cracks in Functionally Graded Beams (FGBs). A cantilever beam is modeled using Finite Element Method (FEM) for analyzing a double-cracked FGB and evaluation of its first four natural frequencies for different cracks depths and locations. The obtained FEM results are verified against availab...