Thomas Hudson: Explaining the Mullins effect in filled rubber

Thomas Hudson: Explaining the Mullins effect in filled rubber Filled rubber is an important material for a wide variety of everyday applications. In the late 1960s, it was noted that filled rubbers exhibit stress-strain hysteresis, a phenomenon which is now termed the Mullins effect after one of its discoverers. In this talk, I will present a possible discrete microscopic model to explain this phenomenon, and discuss ongoing work with Tony Lelievre and Frederic Legoll in which we seek to coarse-grain the dynamics in space leading to a continuum model. The lecture was held within the framework of the Hausdorff Trimester Program Optimal Transportation and its Applications. (30.01.2015)