Workshop on the Multiphysics Behavior of Rubbers

Welcome coffee/Registration

Workshop Opening

Plenary Lecture: Magnetorheological elastomers: theory, experiments and their microstructure by design

Prof. Nick Triantafyllidis

Magneto Rheologic Elastomers

› Multiscale based modeling of electroelasticity in dielectric elastomers - Mikhail Itskov, Department of Continuum Mechanics, RWTH Aachen University 09:50-10:15 (25min)

Coffee break

Magneto Rheologic Elastomers

› Space-charge polarization in microstructured solid dielectrics - Martín Idiart, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Conicet 10:35-11:00 (25min)

› Stability of magnetorheological elastomers with periodically distributed magnetizable particles - Stephan Rudykh, Technion 11:00-11:25 (25min)

› Magneto-elastic instabilities in soft-actuators - Jacopo Ciambella, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering - SAPIENZA University of Rome 11:25-11:50 (25min)

Keynote Lecture: Physical ageing of rubber - the free volume solution

Prof. Leif Kari

Lunch

Poster session

Plenary Lecture: How do environmental conditions influence the performance of technical elastomers?

Prof. Alexander Lion

Keynote Lecture: Cavitation in rubbers exposed to high- pressure hydrogen: in-situ characterization of the phenomenon and modelling at the cavity scale

Prof. Sylvie Castagnet

https://wmbr2017.sciencesconf.org/data/program/abstract_Castagnet_Workshop_Marseille_2017.pdf

Environment Effects/Aging

› A network alteration model to describe and predict the thermal aging effects on the viscoelastic behavior of carbon-filled SBR - Makram Chaabane, Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique 15:25-15:50 (25min)

Coffee break

Network Models/Micro-mechanics

› Reinforcement vs strain-amplification in filled elastomers - Paul Sotta, Laboratoire Polymères et Matériaux Avancés 16:20-16:45 (25min)

› Rubber multi-physics based on the analytical network-averaging concept - Vu Ngoc Khiêm, Department of Continuum Mechanics, RWTH Aachen University 16:45-17:10 (25min)

› Thermomechanical devulcanization of waste rubber with supercritical CO2 - Lucia Asaro, INSA Centre Val de Loire, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Rhéologie 17:10-17:35 (25min)

Dinner at les Arcenaulx