ABSTRACT
The level of material compressibility can be measured in different manners and Horgan & Murphy (2009) presented a description of these methods in their work. Boyce & Arruda (2000) reviewed experimental data and material models for elastomer compressibility present in the literature at that time. In the following section, literature data for the pressure-volume ratio relation of elastomers are presented and discussed. In Section 3, the experimental work is described. Section 4 presents and discuss the experimental results. Implications of the obtained material data for numerical modelling of a seal case are exemplified in Section 5, while some concluding remarks are given in Section 6.
