Academic and industrial Research in Dialogue

The KHK, which was organized by the German Institute of Rubber Technology in Hanover on November 22 - 24, 2016, was well attended with more than 300 participants. High-quality lectures from around the world, 82 in total and 42 percent of them from abroad, including Japan, China, USA, Brazil, Slovakia, France, provided an attractive meeting program. Prof. Dr. Wang, in his lecture 'Filled Rubber Versus Gum', scientifically demonstrated the importance and function of fillers in elastomers, in particular for tire technology. Prof. Dr. Galimberti presented impressively new developments for elastomers using modern filling. In his lecture 'Carbon allotropic as reinforcing fillers: anisotropy, synergy, reinforcement predictivity, chemical reactivity', he particularly emphasized the optimization of the chemical interaction of the carbon nanotubes (CNT) surfaces characterized by sp2-hybridized carbon and graphene with the polymer matrix Novel chemical functionalization. From the Goodyear Innovation Center, Luxembourg, Beatriz Basterra Beroiz gave a talk entitled 'New in-sights into a rubber network structure by a combination of experimental techniques'. The expert described how the contributions of crosslinking density and the elastically active 'entanglements' were determined using various experimental methods using the example of unfilled NR networks. M. Renner, University of Applied Sciences, Plastics and Rubber Technology, Würzburg-Schweinfurt, presented his lecture entitled 'Unusual Polymer Networks and their Rubber Elastic Properties, Theory - Experiment - Applications'. Networks of different structures were produced and character. The final session on simulation & modeling was divided into two contributions from TU Chemnitz by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörn Ihlemann and Nina Heinrich as well as the RWTH Aachen by Prof. Dr. Mikhail Itskov and Khiem Ngoc Vu. Prof. Dr. Ihlemann reported on the current progress of an extensive industrial DIK / DKG community project in cooperation with the Technical University of Chemnitz on the topic 'Identification of inelastic material parameters using component-oriented specimens.