Characterizing Elastomer Fatigue Behavior for Analysis and Engineering
2025-11-03 09:00 - 2025-11-07 12:00 (America/Toronto)
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 live demos from Axel Products testing lab to fully illustrate the complete material characterization process.
2025 Fall Workshop
November 3-7, 2025 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.

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

Application of Rubber Fatigue Analysis Software
2025-11-11 09:00 - 2025-11-14 12:00
Make the most of Endurica’s simulation workflows and learn to use Endurica CL, Endurica DT, Endurica EIE, and Endurica MP
Learn the Endurica software workflows to virtually evaluate fatigue performance and solve design issues at the concept stage. Attendees have returned to their firms and revolutionized their design processes by using the software to diagnose and solve fatigue issues.
Endurica’s live, online training brings world-class knowledge to the comfort of your home/office!
The key workshop for understanding and wielding the power of Endurica’s workflows is presented by our founder, live online in our Application of Rubber Fatigue Analysis with Endurica Software Workshop. Join us from the comfort of your home or office. (No travel required!) Do not let your busy schedule hold you back from registering — we send a link of the recorded presentation of each class to registrants for their reference/review. These links are active for seven days after the class date so you will have time to review the information and/or make up classes you are not able to attend live. Additionally, Dr. Mars is available every class day for “office hours” so you can talk with the instructor privately about your questions and your company’s specific needs.
Course Objectives

Understand key principles governing fatigue in elastomers.
Select and specify material models that accurately describe elastomer behavior.
Apply fatigue analysis workflows for:

Infinite life analyses
Safe life analyses
Damage tolerant analyses

Successfully solve durability issues using Endurica Software (CL, DT and EIE)

Course Outline
Day 1: Fatigue Life Simulation Basics with Endurica CL™

Software installation
Overview of Fatigue Analysis Workflows

Infinite life / safety factor
Safe life
Damage tolerant

Managing Duty Cycle: Setting up the Finite Element Analysis
Fatigue Analysis principles

Fracture Mechanics
Critical Plane Analysis
Rainflow counting / Damage accumulation

Exporting strain history
Material behavior, part 1

Elastic behavior
Crack growth behavior
Calibrating the crack precursor size

Day 2: Common Workflows with Endurica CL™

Material behavior, part 2

Mean strain effects and strain crystallization
Self heating
Specifying temperature effects
Ozone attack

Infinite Life Analysis workflow
Safe Life Analysis workflows

Day 3: Incremental Workflows with Endurica DT™

Specifying Complex Duty Cycles: Steps, Blocks and sequence effects
Damage tolerant analysis workflows
Specifying Block cycles
CoSimulation for Ageing and Cyclic softening

Day 4: Working with Real-time, multi-channel load history: Endurica EIE™

Managing road loads
1D and 2D problems
3D-6D – working in higher dimensions
Channel Reduction
Building a map of the load space
Load interpolation
Signal defeaturing and block cycle extraction

Characterizing Elastomer Fatigue Behavior for Analysis and Engineering
2026-03-16 09:00 - 2026-03-20 12:00
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 live demos from Axel Products testing lab to fully illustrate the complete material characterization process.
2026 Winter Workshop
March 16-20, 2026 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.

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
