Join SIMULIA Partner ENDURICA for a webinar presented by Dr. Will Mars an international leader in the failure mechanics of rubber and elastomers.

A rubber compound’s intrinsic strength has great utility for rubber product developers:

• By keeping tearing energy at all times below the intrinsic strength, a developer can assure indefinite life with minimum effort. 
• Additionally, fatigue crack growth rate behavior can be rapidly approximated from knowledge of tear strength and intrinsic strength

The intrinsic strength can be utilized in combination with critical plane analysis to compute a worst-case safety factor relative to the fatigue limit. Several examples will be presented, including:

• a grommet sizing application
• a tire belt compounding application
• a squeeze pump hose

In each example, simulation is used to compute the fraction of loading reserve (ie safety factor) relative to the experimentally determined intrinsic strength. Follow this link for more information and to register: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ej85brikbcd0b905&llr=8ksgdv9ab

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