Released on = April 21, 2007, 4:00 am

Press Release Author = Bharat Book Bureau

Industry = Marketing

Press Release Summary = Increasing demands are placed on them to withstand hostile
conditions such as high temperature and corrosive environments. These demands make
it harder to predict likely service life or improve design to ensure their
longer-term performance.

Press Release Body = Elastomers and components: Service life prediction - progress
and challenges looks at the wealth of research on understanding fatigue and failure
in elastomers
- discusses the strengths and weaknesses of current service prediction models
- an invaluable reference for engineersElastomeric components are widely used in
engineering. Increasing demands are placed on them to withstand hostile conditions
such as high temperature and corrosive environments. These demands make it harder
to predict likely service life or improve design to ensure their longer-term
performance. This important book reviews the wealth of research on understanding
fatigue and failure in elastomers, and how this understanding can be used to
predict and extend their service life.
The first part of the book reviews factors determining ageing behaviour such as
heat, corrosive environments, wear and cracking. It also discusses the strengths and
weaknesses of current service prediction models. The second part of the book focuses
on analysing and improving the design and service life of particular applications
such as O-rings, bearings, springs and valves.
With its distinguished editor and team of contributors, Elastomers and components:
service life prediction; progress and challenges will be an invaluable reference for
engineers involved in the design and use of elastomers
Table of Content

PART 1 AGEING BEHAVIOUR AND LIFE PREDICTION METHODS FOR ELASTOMERIC MATERIALS

The five year accelerated ageing project for thermoset and thermoplastic elastomeric
materials: A service life prediction
P Albihn
Effect of heat ageing on crosslinking scission and mechanical properties
A R Azura and A G Thomas
Resistance of bonds in rubber components to corrosive environments
A H Muhr, M Clotet, F Di Persio and S Solanki
Assessment of life prediction methods for elastomeric seals - A review
J R Daley
Parameter dependence of the fatigue life of elastomers
F Abraham, T Alshuth and S Jerrams
Strain energy release rates for some classical rubber test pieces by finite element
analysis
O H Yeoh
Heuristic approach for approximating energy release rates of small cracks under
finite strain multiaxial loading
W V Mars
Abrasive wear of elastomers
V A Coveney and D E Johnson

PART 2 SPECIFIC GEOMETRIES AND APPLICATION ISSUES: LIFE PREDICTION OF O-RINGS USED
TO SEAL GASES

Life prediction of o-rings used to seal gases
V A Coveney and R Rizk
Stress induced phenomena in elastomers and their influence on design and performance
of o-rings
G J Morgan, R P Campion and C J Derham
Magnetorheological devices
M Lokander and B Stenberg
Selection of elastomers for a synthetic heart valve
S Baxter, J J C Busfield and T Peijs
Using FEA techniques to predict fatigue failures in elastomers
J J C Busfield and W H Ng
Fatigue life investigation in the design process of metacone rubber springs
W Wu, P Cook, R Luo and W Mortel
Fracture of rubber-steel laminated bearings
A H Muhr
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