IOM plan October conference on Modelling of Elastomeric Materials and Products

ERJ staff report (DS)

London - The Rubber in Engineering Group of the Polymer Society is organising a conference in London on 14 October. The theme of the event is Modelling of Elastomeric Materials and Products. It takes place at IoM headquarters at 1 Carlton House Terrace, London, UK and will start from 09:30.

papers include:

• Modelling and durability assessment for rubber components in rail vehicles - Peter Hansen, John Harris and Salim Mirza (MERL, UK)
• Simulation of Elastomer Fatigue using Effective Flaw Sizes - Frank Abraham, (University of Portsmouth, UK)
• Lifetime prediction of filled elastomers in multiaxial stress states - Daniel Juhre, Rainer Klauke, Thomas Alshuth (DIK, Germany) and Jorn Ihlemann (TU Chemnitz, Germany)
• Small crack energy release rate from configurational force balance in hyperelastic materials - Malik Aït-Bachir, Erwan Verron (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France), William Mars(Cooper Tire and Rubber Company, USA) and Philippe Castaing (Centre Technique des Industries Mécaniques, France)
• Model for heterogeneous ageing of rubber products - Steinke, Jörg Spreckels, Martin Flamm (TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany)
• FEA and testing of an offset sandwich mount - Robert Luo, William Mortel, PW Cook and J Lake (Trelleborg IAVS, UK)
• Identification of local constitutive model from load-microindentation curve - V. Le Saux, Y. Marco, G. Blès, S. Calloch, R. Simon, S. Plessis (Université de Brest, France), P. Charrier (Trelleborg Modyn, France)
• Modelling of dynamic systems with rubber contacts in technical applications - Patrick Moldenhauer, Matthias Kröger (TU Freiberg, Germany)
• Analytical models of nip properties and hysteresis heating for rolling contact of rubber covered rollers - Per-Erik Austrell (Lund University, Sweden) and Anders Olsson (Areva, Sweden)
• Colombian Rubber Foundation Lecture Modelling the behaviour of rubber - James Busfield (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
• 3D characterisation techniques and Monte Carlo simulations to generate models of filled rubber - A. Ocariz, T. Guraya, I. Lecubarri, J.M. Eguzkitza, F. Garrido, E. Gómez, (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
• Injection Moulding Simulation of Engineering Rubber Components - G. Ramorino, S. Agnelli, A. Franceschini, T.Riccò (University of Brescia, Italy)
• Experimental determination of mechanical properties of cord-rubber composites and numerical modelling of their behaviour - Bohdana Marvalova, Hoang Sy Tuan and Iva Petrikova (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic)

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