James Busfield was invited to present the keynote plenary lecture on “Modelling Cavitation Phenomenon in Elastomers” based upon his work with industry sponsor, SLB at the European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber in June 2024 in Turkey. His Soft Matter Group also made several other presentations.

Aaron Duncan presented on “Novel approach to modelling chemical stress relaxation using finite element analysis”, Evangelos Koliolios presented on “Adhesive properties of tyre tread smear wear and its link to transfer layer deposition to road surfaces”, and Yong Pang presented on “Soft cellular solids inspired by marine mussel plaques: scaling of the mechanical properties”. In addition, the work of Maria Del Mar Vizcaino Vergara was presented by our collaborator Leif Kari from KTH, Sweden on “Torsional energy flow through a carbon black filled rubber isolator during physical ageing at room temperature” and Ruhi Patel presented her work in collaboration with Cambridge Uni and SLB on “Finite element modelling for fatigue in polymer heart valves.”