ABSTRACT
Standard mechanical properties of rubber material have not yet been established because there are various combination components and content conditions required in the manufacturing processes. Performance improvement through property estimation and securing design technology of rubber component is a key technology that is mandatory for advancing all machines and systems. According to recent advances in large scale, high speed computers, it is possible to analyze the behaviors of rubber components through nonlinear analysis with finite element methods and to apply systematic and analytical methods to designing rubber components (Kim 2003).
