Overview
- Latest research on Fracture Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics of Reinforced Elastomeric Blends
- Delivers insight into Fracture Mechanics of Elastomers
- Written by leading experts in the field
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics (LNACM, volume 70)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Elastomers are found in many applications ranging from technology to daily life applications for example in tires, drive systems, sealings and print rollers. Dynamical operation conditions put extremely high demands on the performance and stability of these materials and their elastic and flow properties can be easily adjusted by simple manipulations on their elastic and viscous properties.
However, the required service life suffers often from material damage as a result of wear processes such as abrasion and wear fatigue, mostly caused by crack formation and propagation.
This book covers interdisciplinary research between physics, physical chemistry, material sciences and engineering of elastomers within the range from nanometres to millimetres and connects these aspects with the constitutive material properties. The different chapters describe reliable lifetime and durability predictions based on new fracture mechanical testing concepts and advanced material-theoretical methods which are finally implemented in the finite element method for structural simulations.
The use of this approach allows a realistic description of complex geometrical and loading conditions which includes the peculiarities of the mechanical behaviour of elastomeric materials in detail. Furthermore, this approach demonstrates how multi-scale research concepts provide an ambitious interdisciplinary challenge at the interface between engineering and natural sciences.
This book covers the interests of academic researchers, graduate students and professionals working in polymer science, rubber and tire technology and in materials science at the interface of academic and industrial research.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fracture Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics of Reinforced Elastomeric Blends
Editors: Wolfgang Grellmann, Gert Heinrich, Michael Kaliske, Manfred Klüppel, Konrad Schneider, Thomas Vilgis
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37910-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-37909-3Published: 19 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52184-7Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-37910-9Published: 05 June 2013
Series ISSN: 1613-7736
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0816
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 303
Number of Illustrations: 102 b/w illustrations, 119 illustrations in colour
Topics: Solid Mechanics, Classical Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics