Building on our prior works using Inertial Microcavitation Rheometry (IMR), we present a comprehensive list of the high-strain rate (> 10^3 1/s) mechanical properties
of these three popular classes of hydrogel materials characterized via laser-based IMR, further showing that the choice in finite-deformation, rate-dependent constitutive model can be informed directly by the type of crosslinking mechanism and resultant network structure of the hydrogel, thus providing a chemophysical basis of the choice of phenomenological constitutive model. This work has been accepted by Experimental Mechanics titled as “Ballistic and Blast-relevant, High-rate Material Properties of Physically and Chemically Crosslinked Hydrogels.”
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