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Two constitutive models that are based on the classical non-Gaussian, Kuhn-GrĂ¼n probability distribution function are reviewed. It is shown that all chains of a network cell structure comprised of a finite number of identical chains in an affine deformation referred to principal axes may have the same invariant stretch, if and only if the chains are oriented initially along any of eight directions forming the diagonals of a unit cube. The 4-chain tetrahedral and the 8-chain cubic cell structures are familiar admissible models having this property. An easy derivation of the constitutive equation for the Wu and van der Giessen full-network model of initially identical chains arbitrarily oriented in the undeformed state is presented. The constitutive equations for the neo-Hookean model, the 3-chain model, and the equivalent 4- and 8-chain models are then derived from the Wu and van der Giessen equation. The squared chain stretch of an arbitrarily directed chain averaged over a unit sphere surrounding all chains radiating from a cross-link junction as its center is determined. An average-stretch, full-network constitutive equation is then derived by approximation of the Wu and van der Giessen equation. This result, though more general in that no special chain cell morphology is introduced, is the same as the constitutive equation for the 4- and 8-chain models. Some concluding remarks on extensions to amended models are presented.
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Dedicated in memory of my friend and esteemed teacher, Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III
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Beatty, M.F. (2004). An Average-Stretch Full-Network Model for Rubber Elasticity. In: Man, CS., Fosdick, R.L. (eds) The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2308-1_7
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