E-raamat: Constitutive Models for Rubber

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.

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