CHARACTERIZING ELASTOMER FATIGUE BEHAVIOR FOR ANALYSIS AND ENGINEERING

Tom Ebbott teaching Endurica workshop

Plan and execute effective fatigue testing programs to take your rubber fatigue simulations further.

Endurica’s Master Workshop is presented Live, Online. 

Learn the essential principles and practices of material characterization for fatigue life prediction, and strategies and procedures for planning effective fatigue test programs as well as making effective use of crack nucleation and fracture mechanics tools. The Characterizing Elastomer Fatigue Behavior for Analysis and Engineering workshop includes lectures to thoroughly understand the science behind Endurica’s workflow and software solutions PLUS demos from Axel Physical Testing Services lab to fully illustrate the complete material characterization process. 

2024 Workshop Schedule

April 10-12, 2024: Special In-Person Training at Axel Products! This workshop is a special addition to the Eclipse with Endurica Community Conference and the first chance for a public, in-person Characterizing workshop at Axel Products since 2019. Being in the lab and seeing the characterizing tests being performed makes this an outstanding master-level training experience. Everything listed in the course outline below will be covered during this three-day in person workshop. Due to space constraints within the lab, and to provide the best experience, attendance is limited to the first 15 registrants.  Register Here

October 21-25, 2024 ONLINE: Lectures 9:00 a.m. – Noon EDT with additional time available for questions during Office Hours 1:00 – 3:00 daily during the course duration. This course is a LIVE training event and includes live-feed coverage of materials characterization tests underway at Axel Products. A link to the presentation of each class will be made available to registrants for their reference/review. These links will be active for seven days after the class date so attendees will have time to make up classes they may not be able to attend live. Register Here

Course Objectives

  • Know the physics and factors that govern the fatigue behavior of rubber
  • Use accurate models and efficient procedures to characterize fatigue behavior
  • Take advantage of test strategies that minimize risk and maximize productivity
  • Use crack nucleation and fracture mechanics approaches effectively
  • Use characterization to inform accurate fatigue calculations
  • Use characterization to diagnose and solve development issues

Course Outline

  • Day 1
    • Introduction
    • Elastomers as Engineered Materials
    • Stress-Strain Module
  • Day 2
    • Basic Concepts in Elastomer Fatigue
    • Strategy in Fatigue Testing
    • Core Fatigue Module
  • Day 3
    • Intrinsic Strength Module
    • Reliability
    • Nonrelaxing Fatigue Module (Strain crystallizing and amorphous rubbers)
  • Day 4
    • Rubber’s Fatigue Design Envelope
    • Thermal Module
    • Ageing Module
  • Day 5
    • Creep Module
    • Cyclic Softening Module
    • Fatigue Analysis

Course Fee: $1,995

Instructor

Thomas G. Ebbott, Ph.D. Tom is a tire industry veteran known for his leadership in driving advances in modeling, simulation and workflows across a global organization.  He joined Endurica in 2022 after a 35-year career at Goodyear. While at Goodyear, he held various technical and leadership positions with experience in product development, modeling and simulation, and materials characterization. He was a major contributor to the technical partnership between Goodyear and Sandia National Laboratories. He also enjoyed a two-year assignment at Goodyear’s technical center in Luxembourg as the Manager of Computational Mechanics. He has received numerous awards for his scientific contributions including 4 Superior Paper awards from the Tire Society. His published works include topics such as fracture mechanics and crack growth in rubber;  fatigue of cord-rubber composites; non-linear viscoelasticity and constitutive modeling; tire rolling resistance and temperature prediction.

 

What Attendees are Saying . . .

“Great hands-on, very applicable to my FEA work.”

“I think online training worked well. I can’t think how the in-person/onsight would have been better especially since we were able to see the testing frames. Bonus: saved a few driving hours. It was good to go through the material data processing required for fatigue analysis.”

“Great training, an excellent combination of theory and practical.”

“Gave me an awareness of issues we need to consider.”

Thoroughly Endjoyed Endurica Characterizing Elastomers Workshop

“The course content was great and the depth given throughout was really impressive.”

“Knowledgeable instructor, helpful class discussion.”

“The course is overall very well organized, the content is valuable and applicable to everyday use.”

A past student stating their love for the master workshop class.

Dr. William V. Mars explaining what and how these machines can help predict the fatigue behaviors of rubber for analysis. 

Dr. William V. Mars explaining what and how these machines can help predict the fatigue behaviors of rubber for analysis. 

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