Conference Paper

Experimental Investigation on Fatigue Life of Cord-Rubber Composites

Number: Özel Sayı - Special Issue December 31, 2017
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Experimental Investigation on Fatigue Life of Cord-Rubber Composites

Abstract

Air springs are used in automobile suspensions and perform under highly dynamic loading conditions. An essential component of an air spring mechanism is the rubber tube. The rubber tube produced from layered cord rubber composites. It was constructed as two-layer cord fabric reinforced rubber composites. The matrix crack, debonding and failure of the cord are the most observed damage modes of cord-rubber composites. The presented study investigated fatigue life behavior and damage mechanisms of the PA 6.6 Cord fabric/Natural rubber composites. Curing conditions of rubber such as pressure (7.5,12.5, 15 MPa), temperature (140,160 and 180 °C) and time (5,8 and 10 min) were taken as research parameters. Moreover, two type of PA 6.6 cord fiber and three different fiber orientation angle (40,42 and 45°) were studied as material parameters. All experiments performed by using De-Mattia cyclic fatigue test equipment under 5 Hz frequency. The experimental study designed by Taguchi method using L18 orthogonal series. The results show that 12.5 to 15 MPa curing pressure, 8-10 min curing time and 160 °C are optimum values for cord rubber layered composites to obtain high fatigue life. The fiber type of the cord fabric and fiber orientation angle between 40 to 45° does not affect the fatigue life of the cord-rubber composites. The post-mortem analysis performed to clarify damage mechanisms.


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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Engineering

Journal Section

Conference Paper

Authors

Murat Yazıcı *
ULUDAĞ University, ENGINEERING FACULTY, AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
0000-0002-8720-7594
Türkiye

Onur Aykut Kapucu This is me
ULUDAĞ University, ENGINEERING FACULTY, AUTOMOTIVE ENG. DEP
Türkiye

Hasan Kasım
ULUDAĞ University, ENGINEERING FACULTY, AUTOMOTIVE ENG. DEP
Türkiye

Yücel Can
OYAK-RENAULT AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY
Türkiye

Publication Date

December 31, 2017

Submission Date

December 20, 2017

Acceptance Date

December 31, 2017

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Number: Özel Sayı - Special Issue

APA
Yazıcı, M., Kapucu, O. A., Kasım, H., & Can, Y. (2017). Experimental Investigation on Fatigue Life of Cord-Rubber Composites. Avrupa Bilim Ve Teknoloji Dergisi, Özel Sayı - Special Issue, 16-21. https://izlik.org/JA28CR34FK