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):
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Prof. Lucien Laiarinandrasana Mines Paris - PSL University – MAT,
France
lucien.laiarinandrasana@minesparis.psl.eu -
PUBLICATION:
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CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS, SPRINGER http://www.springer.com/physics/classical+continuum+physics/journal/161
(selected manuscripts)
INVITED SPEAKER(S):
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Dr. Stéphane Lejeunes CNRS,
France -
ON THE MECHANICS AND STRUCTURE OF MULTIAXIALLY DEFORMED NATURAL RUBBER Dr. Eric Euchler
Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden,
Germany -
MODELING POLYMER AGING AND ITS IMPACT ON THE MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF MULTILAYERED BLOW-MOLDED PRODUCTS Prof. Olaf Bruch
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences,
Germany -
Prof. Laurent Chazeau INSA Lyon - MATEIS – PC,
France -
FROM MICRO TO MACRO: HOW MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF POLYETHYLENE ENHANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF PLASTICS PROCESSING Prof. Dirk Reith
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences,
Germany -
Dr. Nicolas Candau Polytechnic University of Catalonia,
Spain -
Dr. Anna Katharina Sambale Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden,
Germany -
Prof. Thomas Neumeyer Leibniz Institute for Composite Materials GmbH,
Germany -
POLYMERIZATION-INDUCED PHASE SEPARATIONS IN EPOXIES MODIFIED WITH AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK-COPOLYMERS – A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH Prof. Jan-Kristian Krüger
Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH,
Germany
ABSTRACT (PDF) -
NON-LINEAR INELASTIC 3-PHASE FE MODELS FOR CALENDERED NONWOVENS Dr. Gunnar Possart
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
Germany
ABSTRACT (PDF) -
Dr. Sylvie Castagnet ENSMA,
France -
VISCO-ELASTO-PLASTIC MODELLING OF A SYNTHETIC CHAIN FOR OFFSHORE APPLICATIONS Dr. Louis Le Gué
MECA/DURABILITE,
France -
MESOSCOPIC FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF A STRANDED POLYAMIDE SUB-ROPE WITH A TRANSVERSE ISOTROPIC LAW FOR BUNDLES OF YARNS Dr. Laure Civier
UFR MECA/DURABILITE, ENSTA,
France