Fatigue Crack Growth in Rubber Materials (Experiments and Modelling)

The present book offers 20 cutting-edge chapters devoted to a thorough understanding of the fracture behavior of soft rubber materials. These chapters cover the fields of new testing equipment (Stocˇek et al.) and testing concepts for industrial applications (Robertson et al.; Mars) as well as new discussions about intrinsically multi-scale physical problems and structural features in connection with new experimental findings for understanding of the crack phenomena in soft materials (Creton et al.; Persson et al; Chazeau et al.; Busfield et al.; Westermann et al.; Meier et al.; Klu¨ppel et al.; Euchler et al.; Dedova et al.). Furthermore, new concepts regarding a theoretical and numerical analysis of nonlinear crack-tip mechanics (Kaliske et al.; Volokh) are considered. Industrial applications regarding
fatigue phenomena and regarding rubber materials designed under consideration of crack/wear phenomena are included in this book (Ghosh et al.; Reincke et al.).