ABSTRACT
Recent developments in order to represent the material behaviour of filler-reinforced elastomers under realistic operating conditions are collected in this volume. Special topics are finite element simulations and methods, dynamic material properties, experimental characterization, lifetime prediction, friction, multiphysics and biomechanics, reinf
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Ageing
part |2 pages
Computational methods FEM implementation
chapter |6 pages
Ansys user defined material implementation of van der Waals model
part |2 pages
Continuum mechanical models
chapter |6 pages
Experimental and theoretical investigations of the viscoelastic behaviour of cellular rubber
part |2 pages
A micro-sphere model for rubbery polymers with continuously evolving chain—ODF
chapter |6 pages
A phenomenological model for the material behaviour of elastomers due to multi network chains
part |2 pages
Dynamic properties and vibration
chapter |6 pages
Representation of dynamic elastomer behavior with focus on amplitude dependency
chapter |6 pages
Simulation of self-heating of dynamically loaded elastomer components
part |2 pages
Experiments and characterisation
chapter |6 pages
Multi-axial viscoelastic deformation of carbon-black filled EPDM rubber
chapter |6 pages
Flocculation kinetics in the light of jamming physics: New insights into the Payne-effect in filled rubbers
part |2 pages
Fatigue and lifetime
chapter |6 pages
Beyond Miner’s rule for the fatigue of elastomers: Experiments and modelling
chapter |6 pages
Constitutive and numerical modeling of the fatigue behavior of a filled rubber
chapter |8 pages
Rubber component fatigue life evaluation based on FE-modelling and material testing
chapter |6 pages
Towards a new fatigue life characterization based on heat build-up measurements?
chapter |6 pages
The effect of pre-stressing on the equi-biaxial fatigue life of EPDM
part |2 pages
Friction
part |2 pages
Fracture and crack propagation
chapter |8 pages
Discrete modelling of fracture processes in rubber material
part |2 pages
Industrial applications
chapter |8 pages
Appraisal of nonlinear plasticity models for filled rubber using benchmark tests
part |2 pages
Micro- and macromechanical approaches
chapter |8 pages
A micro-continuum-mechanical material model for failure of rubber-like materials
chapter |4 pages
Meso-scopic 3D-finite element analysis of filled elastomer
chapter |6 pages
Dynamic mechanical properties of strongly stretched polymer chains and networks: Different molecular models
part |2 pages
Multiphics and biomechanics
chapter |4 pages
Modeling of myocardial splitting due to deep penetration
chapter |6 pages
Identification of strain energy function for magneto elastomer from pseudo pure shear test under the variance of magnetic field
part |2 pages
Reinforcement
chapter |6 pages
Non-linear elastic behavior of carbon black filler aggregates in rubber-like elastomers
part |2 pages
Stress softening