ABSTRACT

All aspects of our lives, industry, health, travel and leisure, are utterly reliant on rubber materials, yet typically this notion rarely occurs to us. Increasingly, greater demands are made on elastomeric compounds and we seek elevated performance in terms of improved physical and chemical properties. In particular, we have come to expect rubber c

chapter |20 pages

Invited papers

chapter |98 pages

Modelling and simulation

chapter |44 pages

Damage mechanisms in elastomers

chapter |50 pages

Stress softening and related phenomena

chapter |52 pages

Design and applications

chapter |60 pages

Fatigue and time dependent behaviour

chapter |70 pages

Test methods and analytical techniques