ABSTRACT
Operating mode of TRME depends on many factors that must be considered when designing such device. Parameters of the elements must be selected properly, most important of them are compression, bending and shear stiffness-the dependence between imposed force and received deformation. Stiffness characteristics of the reinforced elastomeric structures strongly differ from unreinforced. Lateral expansion of elastomeric material at the
1 INTRODUCTION
Elastomeric materials offer many engineering advantages and widely used in machine building, shipbuilding, civil engineering, aviation and aerospace as compensation devices, vibration dampers, shock absorbers. Reinforced elastomers, or laminated elastomeric structures, consist of a large number of alternating thin layers of elastomeric and reinforcing layers of other much more rigid material, usually metal. The connection of elastomeric and reinforcing layers is usually fulfilled by means of vulcanization or gluing. Such structures are successfully replace the traditional technical systems because of their ability endure high stress (>200 MPa) and low ratios hear/bulk compression moduli (∼10−3 ÷ 10−4) allowing to obtain the structures, which axial compression stiffness is in several orders greater than the shear stiffness (Lavendel E.E. 1976, Gusyatinskaya N.S. 1978, Dimnikov S.I. 1991).
