ABSTRACT
The unique properties of rubber make it ideal for use in a wide variety of engineering applications such as tyres, engine mounts, shock absorbers, flexible joints and seals. Developing diverse elastomeric elements for various structures involves numerical simulations of their performance, which are based on reliable constitutive models of the mater
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Keynote lectures
part |2 pages
Ageing
chapter |8 pages
Investigation of thermal aging effects on the fatigue design of automotive anti-vibration parts
chapter |6 pages
Characterization of heat sources in the crack tip zone in stretched NR and SBR rubbers
chapter |4 pages
Weathering of NR/CR based rubber vulcanizates: Investigation of network structure using Pulse-NMR and temperature scanning stress relaxation (TSSR) techniques
part |2 pages
Friction and Abrasion
part |2 pages
Adhesion
part |2 pages
Swelling
chapter |6 pages
Swelling Prediction of equilibrium swelling of filled elastomers undergoing deformations
part |2 pages
Continuum mechanical models and numerical implementation
chapter |8 pages
Continuum mechanical models and numerical implementation Temperature dependency of a viscoplastic constitutive model for rubber with reinforcing fillers
chapter |6 pages
Extending the overlay method in order to capture the variation due to amplitude in the frequency dependence of the dynamic stiffness and loss during cyclic loading of elastomers
chapter |6 pages
Cavitation erosion in UHMWPE: A three-dimensional FEM study
part |2 pages
Hyperelasticity
chapter |8 pages
Precise measurement technique of stress–strain relationship for rubber using in-plane biaxial tensile tester
chapter |8 pages
Performance evaluation of various hyperelastic constitutive models of rubbers
part |2 pages
Micro-mechanical approaches
chapter |6 pages
Micro-mechanical approaches Towards constitutive equation for non-linear mechanics of PDMS-nanosilica
part |2 pages
Fracture, fatigue and lifetime prediction
chapter |6 pages
A new experimental approach to rubber resistance against cutting by sharp objects
chapter |6 pages
Analysis of crack propagation in elastomers based on global and local characterization methods
chapter |8 pages
Thermomechanical characterization of the basic fatigue mechanisms at the inclusions’ scale
chapter |8 pages
Evaluation of the fatigue properties of elastomers based on thermo-mechanical characterization coupled to micro-structural measurements
chapter |8 pages
Initiation mechanisms of fatigue cracks in carbon black filled natural rubber
chapter |8 pages
Influence of air and seawater on fatigue behavior of natural rubber
chapter |6 pages
Effect of constrained strain on failure behavior of rubber vulcanizates
chapter |4 pages
Factors affecting fatigue life of cord reinforced rubber and the stress distribution modelling under static and dynamic conditions
part |2 pages
Mullins effects
chapter |6 pages
Experimental investigation of anisotropy of the mechanical properties of reinforced elastomeric nanocomposites
chapter |6 pages
Thermal and calorific effects accompanying the stress softening
part |2 pages
Strain induced crystallization
chapter |8 pages
A micromechanical model for dynamic strain-induced crystallization in filled natural rubbers
chapter |6 pages
Temperature dependence of strain-induced crystallization in natural rubber
part |2 pages
Thermal effects
chapter |8 pages
On the use of a full Haigh diagram for lifetime prediction of rubber parts
part |2 pages
Reinforcement and vulcanization
chapter |6 pages
Reinforcement and vulcanization Quantification of the filler flocculation process in natural rubber melts
chapter |8 pages
The silanization reaction of an organically modified synthetic layered silicate and its use as synergistic filler additive for tire tread compounds
part |2 pages
Design and applications
part |2 pages
Magneto-sensitive, ionic and electro-active elastomers
chapter |6 pages
Magneto-sensitive, ionic and electro-active elastomers Optimization of mechanical properties of magneto-sensitive elastomers by applying hybrid-magnetic fillers
chapter |4 pages
Study on the electrical breakdown of dielectric elastomer actuator materials
part |2 pages
Foams