Endurica Workshop: Characterizing Elastomer Fatigue Behavior for Analysis and Engineering
March 17 @ 9:00 am - March 21 @ 12:00 pm
March 17-21, 2025; Lectures 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET with additional time available for questions during Office Hours 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. ET daily during the course duration.
Location: This course is available virtually only. It can be taken from the comfort of your home or office – remotely from any tablet, laptop or computer.
Course Overview: Learn the essential principles and practices of material characterization for fatigue life prediction, and strategies and procedures for planning effective fatigue test programs as well as making effective use of crack nucleation and fracture mechanics tools. The live, online delivery of our Characterizing Elastomer Fatigue Behavior for Analysis and Engineering workshop includes lectures and exercises for a thorough understanding of the science behind Endurica’s workflow and software solutions. This course is a LIVE training event and a link to the presentation of each class will be made available to registrants for their reference/review. These links will be active for seven days after the class date so attendees will have time to make up classes they may not be able to attend live.
Course Objectives
- Know the physics and factors that govern the fatigue behavior of rubber
- Use accurate models and efficient procedures to characterize fatigue behavior
- Take advantage of test strategies that minimize risk and maximize productivity
- Use crack nucleation and fracture mechanics approaches effectively
- Use characterization to inform accurate fatigue calculations
- Use characterization to diagnose and solve development issues
Course Outline
Day 1
– Introduction
– Elastomers as Engineered Materials
– Stress-Strain Module
Day 2
– Basic Concepts in Elastomer Fatigue
– Strategy in Fatigue Testing
– Core Fatigue Module
Day 3
– Intrinsic Strength Module
– Reliability
– Nonrelaxing Fatigue Module (Strain crystallizing and amorphous rubbers)
Day 4
– Rubber’s Fatigue Design Envelope
– Thermal Module
– Ageing Module
Day 5
– Creep Module
– Cyclic Softening Module
– Fatigue Analysis
Price: $1,895 Member / $1,995 Non-member
Instructor: Dr. Thomas G. Ebbott, Vice President of Endurica LLC and Managing Director of Endurica Europe SARL
Bio: Tom is a tire industry veteran known for his leadership in driving advances in modeling, simulation and workflows across a global organization. He joined Endurica in 2022 after a 35-year career at Goodyear. While at Goodyear, he held various technical and leadership positions with experience in product development, modeling and simulation, and materials characterization. He was a major contributor to the technical partnership between Goodyear and Sandia National Laboratories. He also enjoyed a two-year assignment at Goodyear’s technical center in Luxembourg as the Manager of Computational Mechanics. He has received numerous awards for his scientific contributions including 4 Superior Paper awards from the Tire Society. His published works include topics such as fracture mechanics and crack growth in rubber; fatigue of cord-rubber composites; non-linear viscoelasticity and constitutive modeling; tire rolling resistance and temperature prediction.