Constitutive Models for Rubber

Proceedings of the First European Conference, Vienna, Austria, 9-10 September 1999
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-90-5809-113-0
Verlag: A A Balkema Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

This text aims to enable the experience accumulated by engineers and the research community in materials science, continuum mechanics and applied mathematics to be shared. In this way, the design and analysis of rubber components using the Finite Element Method should be enhanced.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dorfmann, Al

Muhr, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Kautschuktechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Organisation, Constitutive and numerical modelling: Advanced FE analysis of elastomeric automobile components under realistic loading conditions; Modelling of the thermo-mechanical material behaviour of rubber-like polymers - Micromechanical motivation and numerical simulation; An energy-based model of the Mullins effect; Material law selection in the Finite Element simulation of rubber-like materials and its practical application in the industrial design process; The limited static load in finite elasticity; A strain energy function for filled and unfilled elastomers. Experimental techniques: Application of flexible biaxial testing in the development of constitutive models for elastomers; Bi-axial experimental techniques highlighting the limitations of a strain-energy description of rubber; The need for equi-biaxial testing to determine elastomeric material properties. Viscoelasticity:Constitutive model for a class of hyperelastic materials with embedded rheological properties; Effect ofliquids on the dynamic properties of carbon black filled natural rubber as a function of pre-strain; A model of cooperative relaxation in finite viscoelasticity of amorphous polymers; Tyres and friction: A generalized orthotropic hyperelastic constitutive model for reinforced rubber-like materials; Modelling rolling friction of rubber for prediction of tyre behaviour; Experimental characterisation of friction for FEA modelling for elastomers; Physical parameters strain energy function for rubberlike materials; Experimental and numerical investigation of the friction behavior of rubber blocks on concrete and ice surfaces; Material characterisation of tire structure used in explicit time integration of differential equations of the rolling process. Softening phenomena: A realistic elastic damage model for rubber; Viscoelastic and elastoplastic damage fonnulations; A non-Gaussian network alteration model; Experimental detennination of model for liquid silicone rubber: Hyperelasticity and Mullins' effect; Aspects of stress softening in filled rubbers incorporating residual strains; Modelling inelastic rubber behavior under large deformations based on self-organizing linkage patterns; Experimental and computational aspects of cavitation in natural rubber; An advanced micro-mechanical model of hyperelasticity and stress softening of reinforced rubbers. Applications: Finite-element-analyses of intervertebral discs: Recent advances in constitutive modelling; High Damping Laminated Rubber Bearings (HDLRBs): A simplified non linear model with exponential constitutive law - Model description and validation through experimental activities; Implementation and validation of hyperelastic finite element models of high damping rubber bearings; Application of fracture mechanics for the fatigue life prediction of carbon black filled elastomers; Development of artificial elastomers and application to vibration attenuating measures for modern railway superstructures; Different numerical models for the hysteretic behaviour of HDRB 's on the dynamic response of base-isolated structures with lumped-mass models under seismic loading; Finite element analysis on bolster springs for metro railway vehicles; Computational simulation of the vulcanization process in rubber profile production; Indentation of rubber sheets with spherical indentors; Styroflex® - The properties and applications of a new styrenic thermoplastic elastomer; Experiences in the numerical computation of elastomers; Author Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Al Dorfmann, Institute of Structural Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, Vienna. Alan Muhr, Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, MRPRA, Brickendonbury, Hertford, United Kingdom.