Jorgen
2007-08-28, 21:56
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The 23rd Annual Meeting & Conference on Tire Science and Technology, organized by the Tire Society, is taking place September 20-21, 2004 in Akron, Ohio, USA. This is a good conference if you are interested in tire mechanics, or general constitutive modeling of tire materials. Conference information and the program are available. As part of this conference I will give a presentation with the title "Modeling of the Dynamic Thermomechanical Response of Elastomers".
Abstract:
This presentation outlines advanced technologies for modeling and predicting the dynamic behavior of elastomers. Elastomers have been used extensively in many commercial products, including tires, for many years. The mechanical behavior of elastomers is characterized by rate- and temperature-dependence, and the stress-strain response is known to be strongly non-linear. These experimental features are well recognized and important, and have been extensively studied for more than 50 years. The understanding of the micromechanisms controlling the macroscopic mechanical behavior is much more recent, and advanced modeling tools allowing for accurate predictions of arbitrary deformation histories have only started to become available during the last few years. This presentation outlines the current state of the art in finite element modeling of elastomers, and exemplifies the predictive capabilities of modern constitutive theories for both filled and unfilled elastomers.
The 23rd Annual Meeting & Conference on Tire Science and Technology, organized by the Tire Society, is taking place September 20-21, 2004 in Akron, Ohio, USA. This is a good conference if you are interested in tire mechanics, or general constitutive modeling of tire materials. Conference information and the program are available. As part of this conference I will give a presentation with the title "Modeling of the Dynamic Thermomechanical Response of Elastomers".
Abstract:
This presentation outlines advanced technologies for modeling and predicting the dynamic behavior of elastomers. Elastomers have been used extensively in many commercial products, including tires, for many years. The mechanical behavior of elastomers is characterized by rate- and temperature-dependence, and the stress-strain response is known to be strongly non-linear. These experimental features are well recognized and important, and have been extensively studied for more than 50 years. The understanding of the micromechanisms controlling the macroscopic mechanical behavior is much more recent, and advanced modeling tools allowing for accurate predictions of arbitrary deformation histories have only started to become available during the last few years. This presentation outlines the current state of the art in finite element modeling of elastomers, and exemplifies the predictive capabilities of modern constitutive theories for both filled and unfilled elastomers.