The "Engineering with Rubber" short course is designed for both engineering and nonengineering rubber industry professionals. It will provide the knowledge to understand rubber as an engineering material. The sessions in the course will focus on such varied subjects as linear and non-linear elasticity, design concepts applied to developing rubber components; besides providing an overall subject matter view of static and dynamic material and product testing.

1. Instructor: Kartik Srinivas
212, Shukan mall, Sabarmati-Gandhinagar Highway, Motera, Sabarmati,
Ahmedabad 380005, India.
Phone: +91-9624447567 E-mail: kartik.srinivas @ advanses dot com
Course: Engineering with Rubber
The syllabus for the engineering with rubber course will broadly include the following topics;
1) Introduction to Rubber as an engineering material.
 Polymers, Elastomers and Rubbers – What are they? Which elastomers are commonly used in tyre
and non-tyre products? Introduction of issues related to materials selection
2) Large Deformation Rubber Elasticity.
 The use of strain energy functions to show how general deformations can be modelled or analysed
during product design.
 Physics of Rubber Elasticity Building up an elasticity model from a consideration of a single
molecule to represent the behaviour of a macromolecular network.
3) Static and Dynamic Testing to Evaluate Rubber Materials (Theory and Application).
 ISO and ASTM test methods
 Material and Product Characterization Testing
 Test Methods and Testing Machines
4) Design of Components.
 How to design simple rubber components with a consideration of the incompressibility constraints
and other factors.
5) Question and Answers Session.