Fatigue failure of rubber

Since fatigue failure of rubber is envisioned as growth of intrinsic flaws, measurement of fatigue lifetimes (e.g., deformation cycles to failure) can provide a measure of the intrinsic flaw size (Gent et al., 1964 Lake andLindley, 1965 Lake, 1983). Table 3.4 includes the flaw sizes determined from the fatigue life of these sample NR compounds (Choi and Roland, 1996). 

There have been a number of Japanese papers on fatigue failure of rubber products but translations have not been found in most cases other than a wide ranging review (100) and a study on failure of timing belts (156). 

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