Provisional Schedule

9:00-10:00 Arrival, registration and coffee

Session 1

10:00-10:25 Modelling and durability assessment for rubber components in rail vehicles - Peter Hansen, John Harris and Salim Mirza (MERL, UK)

10:25-10:50 Simulation of Elastomer Fatigue using Effective Flaw Sizes - Frank Abraham, (University of Portsmouth, UK)

10:50-11:15 Lifetime prediction of filled elastomers in multiaxial stress states - Daniel Juhre, Rainer Klauke, Thomas Alshuth (DIK, Germany) and Jorn Ihlemann (TU Chemnitz, Germany)

11:15-11:45 Poster session and coffee

Session 2

11:45-12:10  Small crack energy release rate from configurational force balance in hyperelastic materials - Malik Aït-Bachir, Erwan Verron (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France), William Mars(Cooper Tire and Rubber Company, USA) and Philippe Castaing (Centre Technique des Industries Mécaniques, France)

12:10-12:35 Model for heterogeneous ageing of rubber products - Steinke, Jörg Spreckels, Martin Flamm (TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany)

12:35-13:00 FEA and testing of an offset sandwich mount - Robert Luo, William Mortel, PW Cook and J Lake (Trelleborg IAVS, UK)

13:00-14:00 Lunch

Session 3

14:00-14:25 Identification of local constitutive model from load-microindentation curve - V. Le Saux, Y. Marco, G. Blès, S. Calloch, R. Simon, S. Plessis (Université de Brest, France), P. Charrier (Trelleborg Modyn, France)

14:25-14:50 Modelling of dynamic systems with rubber contacts in technical applications - Patrick Moldenhauer, Matthias Kröger (TU Freiberg, Germany)

14:50-15:15 Analytical models of nip properties and hysteresis heating for rolling contact of rubber covered rollers - Per-Erik Austrell (Lund University, Sweden) and Anders Olsson (Areva, Sweden)

Colombian Rubber Foundation Lecture

15:15-16:00 Modelling the behaviour of rubber - James Busfield (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 

16:00-16:30  Poster session and tea

Session 4

16:30-16:55 3D characterization techniques and MonteCarlo simulations to generate models of filled rubber - A. Ocariz, T. Guraya, I. Lecubarri, J.M. Eguzkitza, F. Garrido, E. Gómez, (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

16:55-17:20 Injection Moulding Simulation of Engineering Rubber Components - G. Ramorino, S. Agnelli, A. Franceschini, T.Riccò (University of Brescia, Italy)

17:20-17:45 Experimental determination of mechanical properties of cord-rubber composites and numerical modelling of their behaviour - Bohdana Marvalova, Hoang Sy Tuan and Iva Petrikova (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic)

18:00 Close

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Event Registration

The following rates apply for the different classes of delegates:

IOM3 members £150
Non members £180
Student IOM3 members £50
Student non members £76
Paper author IOM3 Members £70
Paper author non members £84

You can register and pay for this event at www.eventsforce.net/iom/166/home 

Author guidelines

It is anticipated that all the papers for the conference be collected in advance of the meeting and be distributed to the delegates at the conference. It is also planned that some of the papers will form a special edition of the IOM3 journal ‘Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Macromolecular Engineering’. To reduce the workload for the authors we have agreed to make the format for the conference paper the same as that for the journal and we have attached the manuscript preparation guidelines here (153k pdf file). Both poster and oral presentation presenters are anticipated to contribute by writing a paper for the conference. If you do not wish to have your paper considered for publication or have insufficient time before the deadline to compile a full paper then the minimum that is required for the proceedings is for you to write a short extended abstract broadly following the guidelines downloadable here (153k pdf file).

You will have to upload you written paper in either word or as a pdf for the conference proceedings to the IOM3 FTP website by 17:00 on the 16th September 2010. You must meet this deadline to ensure that your paper is included in the conference proceedings. Users of this site can see the files that have been uploaded but can not download them. Can you please use a naming convention where the file is called lastname-first word of title.pdf. So for example a paper called “modelling of rubber” by J. Busfield would be called Busfield-modelling.pdf

Additional instructions for Oral presentations

You will also have to submit your presentation to the IOM3 FTP website. The deadline for doing this is by 17:00 the 1st October 2010. The format for the file is lastname of presenting author.ppt. So for example this would be Busfield.ppt

Additional instructions for Poster Presentations

Poster authors are expected to create a paper that will be included n the conference proceedings. The poster itself must be put up at the start of the conference. Your poster board display space is 90cm wide by 120cm tall, which will take up to an A0 size poster if produced in portrait format. Velco will be provided to authors on the day.