Special Session 7
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS AND MODELLING IN POLYMER MECHANICS: STATE OF THE ART AND FUTURE TRENDS (SS7)
Polymers and polymer components are highly important in a wide range of industrial applications, from such as, bearings and seals to bonds and coatings or pressure vessels and piping. Since these components are used in various areas of engineering, they are naturally exposed to very different processing or service conditions, mixing both environmental influences of chemical or biological substances and complex mechanical or thermal solicitation profiles. Furthermore, polymers’ response and failure show strong time and temperature dependencies. Representative examples could be the high-cycle fatigue of polymer components combining long term mechanical load accumulation to environmental influence, the physical ageing of lacquer coatings, the thermo-oxidative ageing of elastomeric bearings and bonds or the dynamic-thermo-mechanical behaviour of vibration isolators and tires.
This session will focus amongst other topics on different ageing effects as well as on new challenges in polymer modelling and components design. Experimental and theoretical researchers are welcome to present their meaningful results and methods.
TOPICS:
- chemical and physical ageing
- damage, fracture and fatigue
- viscoelasticity and dynamic-mechanical behaviour
- deformation, damage and failure mechanisms
- crystallisation
- curing of polymers, bonds and coatings
- dissipative heating
- experimental investigations at multiple scales
- new challenges in polymer constitutive modelling
- numerical treatment and simulation
AREAS:
Shipping, aerospace, aviation, automotive engineering, joints and gaskets, tires, reservoirs, plastic pipes
ORGANISER(S):
Prof. Lucien Laiarinandrasana Mines Paris - PSL University - MAT
France
lucien.laiarinandrasana@minesparis.psl.eu
PUBLICATION:
CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS, SPRINGER http://www.springer.com/physics/classical+continuum+physics/journal/161
(selected manuscripts)
INVITED SPEAKER(S):
‘ELASTOCALORIC EFFECT IN NATURAL RUBBER
AND NATURAL RUBBER BASED COMPOSITES’ Dr. Nicolas Candau
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC),
Spain
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Dr. Anna Sambale
Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden,
Germany
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Prof. Jean Luc Bouvard
CEMEF Mines Paris PSL University,
France
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Prof. Agustin Rios de Anda
Lyon 1 University,
France
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Prof. Emmanuel Richaud
Arts et Métiers Paris,
France
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Prof. Olivier Lame
INSA Lyon,
France
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Dr. Frédéric Addiego
Luxemburg Institute of Science and Technology,
Luxemburg
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‘MICRO-SCRATCH TESTING OF POLYMERS’ Prof. Luca Andena
Politecnico di Milano,
Italy
‘IMPACT OF THERMAL OXIDATION ON STRAIN-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION
IN NATURAL RUBBER’ Dr. Pierre Yves Le Gac
IFREMER, Centre de Bretagne,
France
‘THE POWER OF AUXETICS: HOW CAN STRUCTURAL EFFECTS CONTRIBUTE
TO THE DESIGN OF METAMATERIALS’ Prof. Tim Ricken
University of Stuttgart,
Germany
Prof. Jan-Kristian Krüger
Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH,
Germany
Dr. Gunnar Possart
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
Germany
Prof. Markus Stommel
Leibniz-Institut fuer Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Germany
‘ENVIRONMENTAL AGING OF PA6: A STUDY ON HYDROTHERMAL
AND UV-INDUCED EFFECTS ON MOLECULAR AND
THERMOVISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES’ Dr. Loredana Kehrer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
Germany
Prof. Guilhem Bles
ENSTA Bretagne,
France
Prof. Florian Arbeiter
University of Leoben,
Austria
Prof. Gerald Pinter
University of Leoben,
Austria