Surface wrinkles and local bifurcations in elastomeric components: seals and gaskets. Part II. Applications

Abstract

In Part I, criteria and remesh schemes were developed to handle wrinkling-ffolding-stretching and localized bifurcations in elastomeric components. This part will benchmark the scheme in a series of example problems involving seals, shock absorbers, etc. Since Mooney-Rivlin and Ogden generalized models are employed, energy-based criteria are also developed to monitor the potential for multiple states resulting from load history generated path dependencies.