Development of Laboratory Testing Apparatus and Fatigue Analysis for Tracked Vehicle Rubber Backer Pads

Abstract

The first part of this paper will outline the conception of the testing apparatus (Figure 1), along with its operation and preliminary results. The second part of the paper will discuss a new methodology used to correlate the dependence of crack growth rate for strain crystallizing natural rubbers in terms of tearing energy. The tearing energy which depends on the type of elastomer, geometry and stress strain behavior of a particular specimen demonstrates a direct correlation with the crack growth rate at different R-ratios (= min tearing energy/max tearing energy).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA566328

Entities

People

  • Daniel Kujawski
  • Daren Distefano
  • William Bradford

Organizations

  • United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Elastomers
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Geometry
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Materials
  • Michigan
  • Natural Rubber
  • Rubber
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Tracked Vehicles
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Universities
  • Vehicles

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  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).
  • Systems Analysis and Design