Organization
Announcement
The Gumference is an international conference that is organized in a virtual manner to make it as accessible as possible to interested parties from academia and industry over the world.
Papers presented at the Gumference will be published in a permanent Topical Collection of the scientific journal Polymer Bulletin (Publisher: Springer) dedicated to novel and advanced testing methods that make connections to fundamental scientific principles, even showing how test results from simple pieces of uncured/cured elastomers or other soft polymers relate to real geometry and loading conditions, creating new opportunities to link laboratory test data to real product properties.
Organizing Team: Radek Stoček and Eric Euchler
Important dates
Next event is GUMFERENCE 2025
| Registration closes | 05.02.2025 |
| Access to the conference will be active on | 06.02.2025 |
| Conference date | 06.02.2025 |
| Talk confirmation | 20.12.2024 |
| Final Program | 31.01.2025 |
| Full paper submission | 15.03.2025 |
Scientific committee
- Assoc. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Radek Stoček
- Dr.-Ing. Eric Euchler
- Ing. Ondřej Kratina, Ph.D.
- Ing. Martin Stěnička, Ph.D.
- Ing. Marek Pöschl, Ph.D.
- Evghenii Harea, Ph.D.
- Sanjoy Datta, Ph.D.
Registration fee
Register for the Gumference via the online registration page.
The amount of the registration fee is as follows:
| Speaker | 0 EUR |
| Audience | 0 EUR |
| Students | 0 EUR |
Preliminary scientific programme for 2025
All times listed are in CET time zone.
| 8:30-8:45 | Radek Stoček (Tomas Bata University Zlin/PRL, Czechia), Eric Euchler (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany) | Welcome |
| 8:45-9:15 | coming soon | coming soon |
| 9:15-9:45 | Franzhu Li (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China) | Elastomer hyperelastic constitutive models and thermo-mechanical coupling fatigue life optimization of rubber products |
| 9:45-10:15 | Prasenjit Ghosh (Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer And Tyre Research Institute, India) | Temperature dependent fatigue properties of rubber compounds- An In-depth investigation |
| 10:15-10:30 | BREAK | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Mohit Goswami (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) | Multiaxial failure of elastomeric composites |
| 11:00-11:30 | Klara Loos (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany) | Experimental investigation and modelling of strain-induced crystallisation in natural rubber under different ageing conditions |
| 11:30-12:00 | Herber Baaser (Bingen Technical University of Applied Sciences, Germany) | coming soon |
| 12:00-13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00-13:30 | Lutz Zybell (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany) | New methodologies for evaluating local strain fields in highly stretched elastomers |
| 13:30-14:00 | Aaron Duncan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom) | Using Dynamic Mechanical Analysis to Evaluate the Combined Effect of Swelling and High Temperature on Rubber Composites |
| 14:30-15:00 | Radek Stoček (Tomas Bata University Zlin/PRL, Czechia) | coming soon |
| 15:00-15:15 | BREAK | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Jaydee Edwards (University of Pennsylvania, USA) | Morphology and mineral encrustations of low- and high-density tire- and road-wear particles collected in Charleston, South Carolina |
| 15:45-16:15 | Christopher G Robertson (Polymer Technology Services LLC, USA) | Temperature-induced vs. strain-induced crystallization of NR or cis BR |
| 16:15-16:20 | Radek Stoček (Tomas Bata University Zlin/PRL, Czechia), Eric Euchler (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany) | Farewell |
Contact
GUMFERENCE Secretariat
Centre of polymer systems Tomas Bata University in Zlin tr. Tomase Bati 5678 76001, Zlin Czech republic Phone: +420 576 031 723
Responsible person: Ing. Ondřej Kratina, Ph.D. For direct contact, send mail to: okratina@utb.cz
