I work with rubber components that can fail due to excessive loading / high cycle count / heat etc.
Is there a post durability test or in depth analysis that can be done specifically on the rubber compound that would be of any value in helping determine why a part has failed? We typiclly...
I get FEA results from our Analysis Group and they have detailed some non-linear FEA's using PEEQ as the criteria. For steel stampings, they have used 0.24 as the criteria.
To a layman, what is PEEQ and what does this mean?