Modelling procedures and properties of rubber in rolling contact
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Summary, in English
Rubber covered cylinders in rolling contact are studied in two cases; rolling over a flat surface and rolling over a groove. In the first case, two different finite element procedures are compared for the purpose of investigating if computational savings can be made when taking amplitude dependent effects into account by using a modified viscoelastic steady state rolling procedure. This procedure is compared with using a more expensive overlay method with an elastoplastic-viscoelastic material model. The two procedures and material models are shown two give equal results in the flat surface case. For the case of rolling over a groove, it is shown how the non-linear dynamic material characteristics of the rubber layer influence the rolling contact. The groove filling capacity of the rubber is shown to be strongly dependent on the material model. It is shown that amplitude dependent rubber materials have better ability to fill out contact surface irregularities such as a groove. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
306-312
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Polymer Testing
Volym
32
Issue
2
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Mechanical Engineering
Nyckelord
- Rolling contact
- Rollers
- Finite elements
- Dynamic properties
- Amplitude
- dependence
- Frequency dependence
- Overlay method
- Equivalent
- visco-elastic model
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0142-9418