TOPICS

• Constitutive models: hyperelasticity, viscoelasticity, stress-softening…
• Micro-structural investigations: filler reinforcement, crystallization…
• Experimental methods and characterization
• Numerical methods
• Fatigue and fracture
• Aging
• Rheology and processing
• Industrial applications: tyres, anti-vibration, joints, design issues…
• Special elastomers: magneto-sensitive rubber, foams, biopolymers and soft tissues…