Modeling the Inelastic behavior of a Tire Tread Compound Reinforced by Carbon Black/Silica using a Nonlinear Viscoelastic model

In order to properly describe the viscoelastic properties of rubbers at higher deformations, a hybrid material model was adopted which consists of the combination of a well-knownhyper-elastic model known as Yeoh[1] and the Bergstrom- Boyce hysteresis model [2,3]. The aim of this research was toexamine the applicability of this material modeling approach in predicting the stress-strain behavior and energy dissipation during a loading/unloading cycle.