Comparison of Elasto-Mechanical Behavior of Rubbers

— This study aims to experimentally compare the elasto-mechanical behaviors of ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber (EPDM), neoprene rubber, silicone rubber, and natural rubber. Rubbers were tested under uniaxial, equibiaxial, and planar loading for five different samples of each material, and the average values have been calculated. Based on the experimental results, a rubber identification was performed by using different rubber models such as Ogden, Mooney-Rivlin, etc. presented in the literature. The result of this study demonstrated that the EPDM rubber showed the highest stress value compared to the other rubbers, silicone rubber, and natural rubber showed similar behavior. Moreover, Neoprene rubber showed the lowest stress value.