Session: Tuesday Afternoon Session A: Mechanics & Modeling of Rubber (Fall 178th Technical Meeting)

Tuesday Afternoon Session A: Mechanics & Modeling of Rubber

Tuesday, October 12, 2010: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Co-chairs:

Hamid Ahmadi, TARRC and Mark Gurvich, United Technologies Research Center

1:00 PM

Plenary Speaker in Session B

1:45 PM

A Comparison of the Transient Stress-Strain Response of Rubber to Its Linear Dynamic Behavior

Peter Mott¹, Jeff Twigg¹, C. M. Roland², Kenneth Nugent¹, Terrence Hogan³ and Christopher G. Robertson³, (1)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, (3)Bridgestone Americas Center for Research and Technology, Akron, OH

2:15 PM

Biaxial Fatigue Investigations On Polychloroprene Rubber

Jean-Louis Poisson, Florian Lacroix, Stéphane Meo, Gaëlle Berton and Naranayaswami Ranganathan, Cermel, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Rhéologie, Université François Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France

2:45 PM

Break

3:00 PM

Stability Analysis of Laminated Rubber Bearings Using New Boundary Conditions

Ali Karbakhsh¹, Ismail Othman¹, Zainah Ibrahim¹ and Kamarudin Malek², (1)Civil Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, (2)Malaysian Rubber Board, Rubber Research Institute, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

3:30 PM

Modeling Strongly Shear-Thinning Materials in Abaqus

O. H. Yeoh, Freudenberg-NOK, Plymouth, MI

4:00 PM

DYNAMIC PROPERTIES of FILLED RUBBER – Part V: Prediction of Cyclic Behavior of Elastomeric Components

Hamid Ahmadi, Engineering Products and Design Division, TARRC, Hertford, United Kingdom, Jan kiok Chye Har, Reserach and Development, Kumpulan Jenco Sdn Bhd, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, Alan Muhr, Reserach and Development, TARRC, Hertford, United Kingdom and Khee Wong, Reserach and Development, Kumpulan Jebco Sdn Bhd, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia