Gent Colloquium...Rubber Mechanics - Session A

Tuesday, October 13, 2015: 1:00 PM-6:15 PM
Co-chairs:
Gary R. Hamed, The University of Akron and William V. Mars, Endurica LLC
1:00 PM
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Biaxial Simple Shear of Rubber
Alan Muhr, Engineering Research, TARRC, Hertford, United Kingdom, Hamid Ahmadi, Engineering Products and Design Division, TARRC, Hertford, United Kingdom and Enrico Tubaldi, TARRC, United Kingdom
1:30 PM
2
Directional Constitutive Laws for Rubbers
Julie Diani, Arts et Meteris ParisTech, PIMM- CNRS UMR 8006, Paris, France
2:00 PM
3
The Free Retraction of Natural Rubber Vulcanisates
Lewis Tunnicliffe, BSc, (Hons), MRes, Department of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, Alan Thomas, Queen Mary University of London, London, England and James Busfield, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, England
2:30 PM
4
Stiffness Loss in Fatigue
William Mars1, Mikel Isasi2 and Aitor Arriaga2, (1)Research, Endurica, Findlay, OH, (2)Polymer R&D, Leartiker, Markina-Xemein, Spain
3:00 PM
5
Comparison of the Strength of Normal and Edge-Cut Tensile Specimens of Styrene-Butadiene Rubber and Natural Rubber with Similar Crosslink Density - Part I
Jiali Jiang, Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH and Gary Hamed, The University Of Akron, Akron, OH
3:30 PM
Break
3:45 PM
6
Comparison of the Strength of Normal and Edge-Cut Tensile Specimens of Filled Natural Rubber with Different Carbon Black Types and Similar Crosslink Density – Part II
Jiali Jiang, Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH and Gary Hamed, The University Of Akron, Akron, OH
4:15 PM
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5:15 PM
9
5:45 PM
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