Physical Testing of Rubber
Primarily intended as a reference for those directly concerned with testing rubbers, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the procedures for measuring the whole range of the physical properties of rubber.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Physical Testing of Rubber
Chapter 9: Dynamic Stress and Strain Properties
The term dynamic test is used here to describe the type of mechanical test in which the rubber is subjected to a cyclic deformation pattern from which the stress strain behaviour is calculated. It does not include cyclic tests in which the main objective is to fatigue the rubber, as these are considered in Chapter 12. Dynamic properties are important in a large number of engineering applications of rubber including springs and dampers and are generally much more useful from a design point of view than the results of many of the simpler static tests considered in Chapter 8. Nevertheless, they are even today very much less used than the "static" tests, principally because of the increased complexity and apparatus cost.
1 PRINCIPLES OF DYNAMIC TESTS
Before considering particular test methods, it is useful to survey the principles and terms used in dynamic testing. There are basically two classes of dynamic motion, free vibration in which the test piece is set into oscillation and the amplitude allowed to decay due to damping in the system, and forced vibration in which the oscillation is maintained by external means. These are illustrated in Figure 9.1 together with a subdivision of forced vibration in which the test piece is subjected to a series of half-cycles. The two classes could be sub-divided in a number of ways, for example forced vibration machines may operate at resonance or away from resonance. Wave propagation (e.g. ultrasonics) is a form of forced vibration method and rebound resilience...
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