Characteristic Tearing Energy and Fatigue Crack Propagation of Filled Natural Rubber.

Below the incipient characteristic tearing energy (), cracks will not grow in rubber under fatigue loading. Hence, determination of the characteristic tearing energy is very important in the rubber industry. A rubber cutting experiment was conducted to determine the , using the cutting method proposed originally by Lake and Yeoh.

Fatigue Life Assessment of Filled Rubber by Hysteresis Induced Self-Heating Temperature.

As a viscohyperelastic material, filled rubber is widely used as a damping element in mechanical engineering and vehicle engineering. Academic and industrial researchers commonly need to evaluate the fatigue life of these rubber components under cyclic load, quickly and efficiently. The currently used method for fatigue life evaluation is based on the S-N curve, which requires very long and costly fatigue tests.

Effect of Temperature on the Tear Fracture and Fatigue Life of Carbon-Black-Filled Rubber.

The mechanical behaviour of carbon-black (CB)-filled rubber is temperature-dependent. It is assumed that temperature affects the fatigue life of rubber products by changing the tear energy of the material. The static tearing behaviour and fatigue crack propagation behavior of CB-filled rubber at different temperatures were investigated in this study.