ABSTRACT
A promising material model, which is capable to describe a wide range of nonlinear and inelastic material properties of filled elastomers within a physically motivated framework, is the so-called Dynamic Flocculation Model (DFM) Freund et al. (2011); Lorenz et al. (2011). It couples the entropic driven material behavior of the polymer network with the filler-filler interaction by considering the breakage and re-agglomeration of filler clusters in the polymer matrix during repeated loading cycles. The model shows a very good fit to standard multihysteresis tests and its material parameters are aligned to real physical quantities.
