Veronica Marchante Rodriguez

research fellow

Dr Marchante Rodriguez is a research fellow at Cranfield University. She specializes in material science, nanocomposites and composite materials, mainly for automotive and motorsport applications. Dr Marchante Rodriguez has worked in projects related to ground–tire interaction and tire modeling, and in the assessment of airborne particles released from rubber compounds. Currently, she supports a KTP project with Dunlop Aircraft Tyres related to the development of tools to predict the fatigue life of tires.

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Presentation

Interfacial adhesive behavior on rubber compounds for tire applications

Understanding the fatigue performance of rubber compounds is critical to predicting tire lifetime and potentially extending service life. The interfacial adhesive between rubber and cord is one of the key parameters affecting the fatigue behavior. This study provides a detailed experimental and numerical work on the Mode I (opening) interfacial adhesive performance using T-peel test samples. The effect of strain rate on the experimental work is analyzed. Cohesive zone modeling techniques are employed to predict the damage evaluation in the tests. Findings from this research can be useful to simulate fatigue behavior of the full scale tire.