Session: Mechanics and Modeling of Rubber, Session C (Fall 186th Technical Meeting)

Mechanics and Modeling of Rubber, Session C

Tuesday, October 14, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:15 PM

Session C-Rm #204 (Nashville Convention Center)

Chair:

Peter Mott, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Co-Chair:

Anoop G. Varghese, Engineer, Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations

1:30 PM

Sealing Force Mesurement: Characterizing Materials and Configuration Responses

Paul Tuckner, Grace Technology and Development, Oakdale, MN

2:00 PM

Failure of Classical Elasticity in Auxetic Foams

Peter Mott, Sc, D¹, Joon Roh², C. Michael Roland³ and Carl Giller², (1)Chemistry Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, (2)Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, (3)Chemistry Division, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC

2:30 PM

Rubber Abrasion

Guangchang Wu, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, James Busfield, Department of Materials, Queen Mary University of London, London, England and Alan Thomas, Queen Mary University of London, London, England

3:00 PM

Rubber Characterization for Tire Modeling

Nihar Raje and Brian Steenwyk, Advanced Tire Technology, Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, Akron, OH

3:30 PM

Break

3:45 PM

Stress Softening of Filled Rubber and Its Internal Morphologies

Yoshihiro Morishita and Katsuhiko Tsunoda, Bridgestone Co., Tokyo, Japan

4:15 PM

An Amplitude, Temperature and Prestrain Dependent Constitutive Model of Dynamic Modulus for Tire Rubbers

Mengxi Huang, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

4:45 PM

Prediction of Mechanical Property of Compounds by Using a Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Neural Network

Teck Cheng Seng, Engineering, Design & Prototype Center, Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, Sg. Buloh, Malaysia