Table 6 Different material model frameworks used for modelling of PLA (Soares et al. 2008; Eswaran et al. 2011; Söntjens et al. 2012; Khan and El-Sayed 2013; Hayman et al. 2014; Bergstrom and Hayman 2016)
Model | Class | Degradation modelled | Visco-plastic effects | Anisotropic effects | Use in FE simulations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Eswaran et al. 2011) | Viscoplastic | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
(Hayman et al. 2014) | Hyperelastic | ✓ | x | x | ✓ |
(Khan and El-Sayed 2013) | Linear viscoelastic | ✓ | x | x | ✓ |
(Soares et al. 2008) | Hyperelastic | ✓ | x | x | ✓ |
(Söntjens et al. 2012) | Viscoplastic | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |