Prediction of fatigue life improvement in natural rubber using configurational stress

To some extent, continua can no longer be considered as free of defects. Experimental observations on natural rubber revealed the existence of distributed microscopic defects which grow upon cyclic loading. However, these observations are not incorporated in the classical fatigue life predictors for rubber, i.e. the maximum principal stretch, the maximum principal stress and the strain energy. Recently, Verron et al. [Verron, E., Le Cam, J.B., Gornet, L., 2006. A multiaxial criterion for crack nucleation in rubber. Mech. Res. Commun. 33, 493-498] considered the configurational stress tensor to propose a fatigue life predictor for rubber which takes into account the presence of microscopic defects by considering that macroscopic crack nucleation can be seen as the result of the propagation of microscopic defects. For elastic materials, it predicts privileged regions of rubber parts in which macroscopic fatigue crack might appear. Here, we will address our interest to a broader context. Rubber is assumed to exhibit inelastic behavior, characterized by hysteresis, under fatigue loading conditions. The configurational mechanics-based predictor is modified to incorporate inelastic constitutive equations. Afterwards, it is used to predict fatigue life. The emphasis of the present work is laid on the prediction of the well-known fatigue life improvement in natural rubber under tension-tension cyclic loading.

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