The authors have produced for trial a tester with which shear modulus
G, one of the important characteristics of rubber, could be measured in conformity with the strict theory of elasticity.
If we call the value of shear modulus, measured with this tester, as
GSS, it has almost one-to-one correspondence to spring hardness
Hs, Comparing
Gss with
Gs, shear modulus calculated from tensile stress at small extension, the former is a little larger than the latter when a specimen is soft. But the harder a testpiece is, the larger the difference of two values. The relation between Yerzley′s dynamic modulus
Edvn and
Gss is almost linear except in a case of soft rubber. The ratio of dynamic modulus
G1, obtained by resonance method, to
Gss is 1.06-1.10.
Also it is investigated by the new tester how the value of
Gss varies when the measurement is done with piled up specimen.
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