TY - JOUR

T1 - Fatigue Behavior of Elastomeric Components

T2 - A Review of the Key Factors of Rubber Formulation, Manufacturing, and Service Conditions

AU - Gehling, Tobias

AU - Schieppati, Jacopo

AU - Balasooriya, Winoj

AU - Kerschbaumer, Roman Christopher

AU - Pinter, Gerald Gerhard

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

PY - 2023/7/3

Y1 - 2023/7/3

N2 - Elastomeric materials are often used as components that undergo cyclic loading during application, such as tires, seals, and hoses. For this reason, the long-term performance, or more precisely the crack growth behavior, is of great importance. Even though several studies investigated the fatigue behavior of rubber materials during the last 80 years, this topic is still widely under discussion and remains of great interest among scientists. Mars and Fatemi reviewed the developments of the field in the beginning of 2000, however, this paper considers the overall development including new findings to serve as a guide for further investigations in the field of fatigue of elastomers. For this purpose, the usual measurement methods and their evaluation, as well as the most important factors influencing the fatigue behavior, like the formulation of the rubber compound or the application and testing conditions, are explained in detail. Furthermore, an outlook is given on parameters that still need to be scientifically investigated, such as the influence of filler orientations or the selected manufacturing method, in order to fully understand fatigue crack growth.

AB - Elastomeric materials are often used as components that undergo cyclic loading during application, such as tires, seals, and hoses. For this reason, the long-term performance, or more precisely the crack growth behavior, is of great importance. Even though several studies investigated the fatigue behavior of rubber materials during the last 80 years, this topic is still widely under discussion and remains of great interest among scientists. Mars and Fatemi reviewed the developments of the field in the beginning of 2000, however, this paper considers the overall development including new findings to serve as a guide for further investigations in the field of fatigue of elastomers. For this purpose, the usual measurement methods and their evaluation, as well as the most important factors influencing the fatigue behavior, like the formulation of the rubber compound or the application and testing conditions, are explained in detail. Furthermore, an outlook is given on parameters that still need to be scientifically investigated, such as the influence of filler orientations or the selected manufacturing method, in order to fully understand fatigue crack growth.

KW - Elastomers

KW - Fracture Mechanics

KW - fatigue crack growth

KW - Hysteretic Heating

KW - infleuncing factos on fatigue

KW - strain-induced crystallization

KW - Paris-Erdogan law

KW - Crack growth resistance

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U2 - 10.1080/15583724.2023.2166955

DO - 10.1080/15583724.2023.2166955

M3 - Review article

VL - 63.2023

SP - 763

EP - 804

JO - Polymer reviews

JF - Polymer reviews

SN - 1558-3724

IS - 3

ER -