Fatigue Crack Growth in Rubber Materials: Experiments and Modelling (Paperback)

Some Revisions of Fatigue Crack Growth Characteristics of Rubber.- Determining Parametrical Functions Defining the Deformations of a Plane Strain Tensile Rubber Sample.- The effect of polyglycols on the fatigue crack growth of silica filled natural rubber.- The Fatigue Threshold of Rubber and Its Characterization Using the Cutting Method.- Critical Plane Analysis of Rubber.- Cavitation Micro-mechanisms in Silica-Filled Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Upon Fatigue and Cyclic Tensile Testing.- New Approaches to Modeling Failure and Fracture of Rubberlike Materials.- Influence of Filler Induced Cracks on the Statistical Lifetime of Rubber: A Review.- Fatigue Life Analysis of Solid Elastomer-Like Polyurethane.- Cavitation in Rubber Vulcanizates Subjected to Constrained Tensile Deformation.- Fatigue Crack Growth vs. Chip and Cut Wear of NR and NR/SBR Blend-Based Rubber Compounds.- Review on the Role of Phase Morphology and Energy Dissipation Around the Crack Tip During Fatigue Crack Propagation of Filler-Reinforced Elastomer Blends.- Methodology Used for Characterizing the Fracture and Fatigue Behavior of Thermoplastic Elastomers.- About the influence of materials parameters on the ultimate and fatigue properties of elastomers.- Influence of Plasticizers Basing on Renewable Sources on the Deformation and Fracture Behaviour of Elastomers.- Fracture and Fatigue Failure Simulation of Polymeric Material at Finite Deformation by the Phase-Field Method and the Material Force Approach.- Viscoelastic Crack Propagation: Review of Theories and Applications.-  Dissipative Heating, Fatigue and Fracture Behaviour of Rubber Under Multiaxial Loading.- Determination of the Loading Mode Dependence of the Proportionality Parameter for the Tearing Energy of Embedded Flaws in Elastomers Under Multiaxial Deformations.- Microfocused Beam SAXS and WAXS Mapping at the Crack Tip and Fatigue Crack Propagation in Natural Rubber.