ECCMR 2013 - European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber - Abstract deadline: 1 Nov 2012

The 8th European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubbers (ECCMR VIII) will be held at Tecnun/CEIT (San Sebastian, Spain) between June 25th and June 28th, 2013.

ECCMR is the premier rubber research and technology event worldwide, in a series of biennial conferences. The previous seven conferences (Vienna 1999, Hannover 2001, London 2003, Stockholm 2005, Paris 2007, Dresden 2009 and Dublin 2011) were highly successful and attracted an increasing number of participants for a wide variety of disciplines in academia and industry in the field of rubber technology.

The conference is aimed at bringing together specialists in research across all disciplines associated with elastomers and provides the opportunity to discuss advances in rubber mechanics. The conference topics cover all aspects of rubber technology, such us:

• Experimental characterisation
• Rheology and processing
• Filler reinforcement
• Dynamic mechanical properties of elastomers
• Stress softening
• Modelling of viscoelastic and hyperelastic behaviour
• Constituve models and their implementation in FEM
• Micro-structural theories of rubber
• Aging
• Strength, fracture, fatigue and lifetime prediction of rubber
• Industrial applications
• Tyres and friction
• Design issues
• Special elastomers (magneto-sesnitive elastomers, soft tissues, special purpose rubbers, foams, biopolymers)