ABSTRACT
In order to develop innovative products, to reduce development costs and the number of prototypes and to accelerate development processes, numerical simulations become more and more attractive. As such, numerical simulations are instrumental in understanding complicated material properties like chemical ageing, crack propagation or the strain- and temperature-induced crystallisation of rubber. Therefore, experimentally validated and physically meaningful constitutive models are indispensable. Elastomers are used for products like tyres, engine and suspension mounts or seals, to name a few. The interest in modelling the quasi-static stress-strain behaviour was dominant in the past decades, but nowadays the interests also include influences of environmental conditions. The latest developments on the material behaviour of elastomers are collected in the present volume.
Constitutive Models for Rubber X is a comprehensive compilation of nearly all oral and poster contributions to the European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber (Munich, 28-31 August 2017). The 95 highly topical contributions reflect the state of-the-art in material modelling and testing of elastomers. They cover the fields of material testing and processing, filler reinforcement, electromagnetic sensitive elastomers, dynamic properties, constitutive modelling, micromechanics, finite element implementation, stress softening, chemical ageing, fatigue and durability. In the area of rubbery materials and structures, applied research will play an important role also in the coming decades.
Constitutive Models for Rubber X is of interest to developers and researchers involved in the rubber processing and CAE software industries, as well as for academics in nearly all disciplines of engineering and material sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|29 pages
Keynote lectures
part 2|64 pages
Ageing
part 3|70 pages
Constitutive models and their implementation in FEM
part 4|118 pages
Experimental characterisation
chapter 33|5 pages
Crack growth under long-term static loads
chapter 42|6 pages
Multi-objective optimization of hyperelastic material constants
part 5|92 pages
Fracture, fatigue and lifetime prediction of rubber
chapter 44|6 pages
Rubber reinforcing carbon fibre cord under tension and bending Part 1
part 6|18 pages
Filler reinforcement
chapter 61|8 pages
A novel reinforcement structure in tire tread compounds
part 7|9 pages
Stress softening
chapter 62|7 pages
A physical interpretation for network alterations of filled elastomers under deformation
part 8|8 pages
Rheology and processing
part 9|18 pages
Special elastomers
part 10|36 pages
Industrial applications
part 11|9 pages
Design issues
part 12|68 pages
Modelling of viscoelastic and hyperelastic behaviour
part 13|65 pages
Micro-structural theories of rubber
part 14|15 pages
Tyres and friction