Rubber Structural Coupon Behaviour Study under Pressure Impulse

Abstract

This study focuses on the rubber material behaviour assessment under dynamic loading using numerical methods. Consequently, dynamic simulations of the rubber structural coupon subjected to dynamic velocity loading were performed using the explicit integration procedure with central difference scheme with modified time integration of the equation of motion implementation. During investigations two impulse velocities were used and compared for two different constitutive materials: Mooney-Rivlin without rate-dependency and Mat 181 Simplified Rubber which includes strain rate effects. From the obtained results it was noticed that material behaviour in both cases is different and along with different values of velocity the strain rate sensitivity changes.