International Rubber Expo™ - Rubber Division

BUSINESS COLLOQUIUM
Moderator: Larry Evans
9:45 am 84 Patent Law Update: How Will the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Affect Invention Disclosures at Your Company? - Jacob
Ward, Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC
10:15 am 85 The Creation & Management of Knowledge (In The Rubber Industry) - Jagdish Patel, Self Employed, United Kingdom
SESSION B - Room 200
INJECTION MOLDING
Chair: John S. Dick
8:00 am 86 An Advanced Alternative to Ethylene Acrylic (AEM) Elastomers for High-Temperature, Oil Resistant Hoses - Joshua R. Kelley, Zeon
Chemicals L. P.
182 nd Technical Meeting
8:30 am 87 AEM Polymer for Seals and Gaskets with Low Oil Swell and Improved Processing - Edward McBride, DuPont Performance Polymers
9:00 am 88 Influence of Manufacturing Parameters on the Properties of Elastomeric Vibration Isolators - Emmanuelle Sommier, Ecole
Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
9:30 am Break
9:45 am 89 Extrusion of Low Friction and Low Stiction Microstructured Surfaces on Silicone Rubber - Andrew Cannon, Hoowaki LLC and Mel
Toub, Momentive Performance Materials, Inc.
10:15 am 90 Cure Kinetics and Variable Temperature Analysis Methodologies for Solving Factory Problems - John S. Dick, Alpha Technologies
U.S.
SESSION C - Room 203/204
MECHANICS & MODELING OF RUBBER
Co-Chairs: Mark Gurvich, Peter Mott
8:00 am 91 A Parametric Evaluation of Hardness, Compression Set, and Compression Stress Relaxation on O-Rings and Cylindrical Shapes Over
a Range of Sizes - Paul Tuckner, Grace Technology and Development
8:30 am 92 Influence of Friction on the Fatigue Crack Growth of Components Under High Compression - Salim Mirza, MERL Ltd.
9:00 am Break
9:15 am 93 Critical Plane Analysis of Fatigue Crack Nucleation Under Tension, Shear and Compression - William Mars, Endurica LLC
9:45 am 95 New Approach to Modeling Failure in Rubber - Konstantin Volokh, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
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