A viscoelastic constitutive model of cord-rubber composite is established by introduction of strain energy density function; a new failure criterion is also proposed in terms of different failure modes of unidirectional ply of rubber composite. They are validated by biaxial tensile experimental data of nylon-6 cord-rubber composite. Results show that the proposed large deformation and viscoelastic constitutive model is an effective model for cord-rubber composite and the new failure criterion can be used to predict tensile failure of ply of cord-rubber composite.
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