Torsional, Compression and Shear Stiffness of Thin-layer Rubber-metal Spherical Joint-hinge
16th International Scientific Conference "Engineering for Rural Development": Proceedings 2017
Svetlana Polukoshko, Andris Martinovs, Vladimirs Gonca

In this paper laminated elastomeric bearings (composite of thin elastomer and metal layers) are considered. This type of bearings or joint-hinge has many advantages because of ease of maintenance; ability to work in a very aggressive environment, low cost and vibration damping capability. The geometric shape of such bearing may be planar, cylindrical, conical, spherical and other, given work deals with spherical thin-layered rubber-metal bearings. Operating of such device depends on many factors that must be considered on the design stage: parameters of the elements must be selected properly. The most important parameter is stiffness - dependence between imposed force and received deformation. In this work torsional, compression and shear stiffness of laminated bearings was defined for the testing specimens by experiments and torsional stiffness was received analytically. Both methods show good enough coincidence.


Keywords
Compression, Elastomers, Laminated rubber hinge, Rubber bearing, Shear, Stiffness, Torsion
DOI
10.22616/ERDev2017.16.N266
Hyperlink
http://www.tf.llu.lv/conference/proceedings2017/Papers/N266.pdf

Polukoshko, S., Martinovs, A., Gonca, V. Torsional, Compression and Shear Stiffness of Thin-layer Rubber-metal Spherical Joint-hinge. In: 16th International Scientific Conference "Engineering for Rural Development": Proceedings, Latvia, Jelgava, 24-26 May, 2017. Jelgava: Latvia University of Agriculture, 2017, pp.1213-1219. ISSN 1691-3043. Available from: doi:10.22616/ERDev2017.16.N266

Publication language
English (en)
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