Time Dependent Behaviour of Rubber

A one day conference organised by the Rubber in Engineering Committee of The Polymer Society – A Division of the Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals.

To be held at 1 Carlton House Terrace, London on 30th October 2008.

Synopsis

The physical properties of rubbers will change depending on the timescale or the frequency. With an understanding of this time dependent behaviour we can effectively utilise rubbers in applications such as sound and vibration isolation.

Papers are invited on all aspects of the time and frequency dependent properties of elastomeric materials.

The conference will have the following themes:

• Measuring and predicting long term properties such as creep and stress relaxation
• Characterising the dynamic mechanical properties
• High frequency behaviour: e.g. acoustic and ballistic properties
• Applications: e.g. vibration damping

Abstracts

Please submit your abstract of less than 250 words, which should identify all authors including the proposed speaker as well as their affiliations, to Martin Burke at QinetiQ (e-mail: mpburke@qinetiq.com) by Friday 7th March 2008.

Sponsorship

Please contact Paul Harris (e-mail: paul.harris@iom3.org) if you wish to sponsor, or exhibit at this conference.

Further Details

The future meetings schedule for the Rubber in Engineering Committee can be found at www.rieg.org.uk