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Abstract
Liquid silicone rubber has been applied to various products such as electronic devices owing to its excellent thermal and chemical resistance. Hyperelastic materials, however, have properties distinguished from general metal materials. Hyperelastic materials show elastic behaviours in the range of large deformation in which load has a nonlinear relation with deformation. In addition, they have characteristics of nonlinearity, and incompressibility, on a large scale. On account of such characteristics, there are many difficulties in design and production using these materials. In this study, the load-deformation, compression strain, and contact pressure relation were obtained from the mating test of two different tolerance test blocks whereas applied to finite element analysis to design waterproof connectors for automobiles. Effectiveness of the finite element analysis was confirmed by comparing the results of the analysis.
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