Macro and Nano scale study for self-Healing

Materials
case: Characterization of Thermo-mechanical
Behavior (fatigue and self-heating) of Carbon-filled
Rubbers Under Cyclic Loading Conditions

PhD student : Hasan TAHIR

Supervisors

Prof. A. ZAOUI: University of Lille Nord de France

Prof. F. ZAIRI: University of Lille Nord de France

1
 Introduction of the thesis subject

• Rubber-like materials ?
• Different scales of study
• Origin of inelastic properties?
• Recoverable rearrangement
• Unrecoverable rearrangement
• Thermodynamic framework
• average intrinsic dissipation d1
•
 Experimental work and Results
• The investigated rubber is a sulfur vulcanized SBR filled with three different
amounts of carbon-black: 15, 25 and 43 phr (part per hundred of rubber in
weight), denoted by SBR15, SBR25 and SBR43

*Guo, Q., Zaïri, F., Baraket, H., Chaabane, M., & Guo, X. (2017). Pre-stretch dependency
of the cyclic dissipation in carbon-filled SBR. European Polymer Journal, 96, 145-158.
 2- Objectives:
• Contribution to a better understanding of the
phenomenon of self-heating and fatigue.
• Thermo-mechanical behaviour modelling of
SBR under the cyclic loading.
• Experimental validation of numerical models
to predict the self heating and fatigue life of
rubber and its physical interpretation at
macro/nano level.
 Experimental work in progress
•Test protocol for the Mechanical Dissipation,
Softening and Temperature evaluation for different
amplitudes at constant strain rate for SBR 43 phr
Rubber

Cyclic loading until the rupture

Amplitude and
frequency given in
table

Amplitude (mm) Frequency (hz) Fatigue life (cycles)

5.5 1.36 100000

6.5 1.15 17000
7.5 1 35000
8.0 0.93
8.5 0.88 3150
Mechanical Dissipation, softening and temperature evaluation for the different
amplitude and frequency but at constant strain rate for SBR 43 phr Rubber

8.5
7.5
6.5

Temperature C
5.5

No of Cycles
 Research Plan Steps: Those implemented
and futures
Learning Required
Experimental work for courses about the
Literature Nano scale analysis
the thermo-mechanical
review e.g molecular
response of SBR rubber
dynamics, Ab-initio,
Monte-carlo
thermal camera Process
carbon filled Rubber, use of in Implementation this
About the cyclic loading of learning to predict the
behaviour of self heating
and its physical
implementation for the research interpretation at
required software learning and its macro/nano level.
scale modelling
For the 2nd year, courses about the nano

Thesis and
article writing 7
 References
1-Guo, Q., Zaïri, F., Baraket, H., Chaabane, M., & Guo, X. (2017). Pre-stretch dependency of the cyclic dissipation in
carbon-filled SBR. European Polymer Journal, 96, 145-158.
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3- W.V. Mars, Cracking energy density as a predictor of fatigue life under multiaxial conditions, Rubber Chem. Technol.
75 (2002) 1–17.
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483.
5-J.B. Brunac, O. Gerardin, J.B. Leblond, On the heuristic extension of Haigh’s diagram for the fatigue of elastomers to
arbitrary loadings, Int. J. Fatigue 31 (2009)859–867
6-G. Ayoub, M. Naït-Abdelaziz, F. Zaïri, J.M. Gloaguen, P. Charrier, A continuum damage model for the high-cycle fatigue
life prediction of styrene-butadiene rubber under multiaxial loading, Int. J. Solids Struct. 48 (2011) 2458–2466
7-A. Lion, A constitutive model for carbon black filled rubber: experimental investigations and mathematical
representation, Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 8 (1996) 153–169.
8-G. Ayoub, F. Zaïri, M. Naït-Abdelaziz, J.M. Gloaguen, Modeling the low-cycle fatigue behavior of visco-hyperelastic
elastomeric materials using a new network alteration theory: application to styrene-butadiene rubber, J. Mech. Phys.
Solids 59 (2011) 473–795.
9-G. Ayoub, F. Zaïri, M. Naït-Abdelaziz, J.M. Gloaguen, G. Kridli, A visco-hyperelastic damage model for cyclic stress-
softening, hysteresis and permanent set in rubber using the network alteration theory, Int. J. Plast. 54 (2014) 19–33.
10-C. Ovalle-Rodas, F. Zaïri, M. Naït-Abdelaziz, P. Charrier, Filler effects on the heat build-up of filled rubbers during
fatigue: experimental observations and constitutive modelling, in: Constitutive Models for Rubber IX – Proceedings of
the 9th European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubbers, ECCMR 2015, 2015, pp. 173–180.
11-L. Mullins, Effect of stretching on the properties of rubber, Rubber Chem. Technol. 21 (1948) 281–300.