Publications


JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. B. Earley, J. Mc Namara & S. Jerrams, “Effect of slats, three mat types and out-wintering pads on performance, physiological, immunological and behavioral responses of finishing  beef steers”, awaiting publication in Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 2011
  2. C. Briody, B. Duignan & S. Jerrams,  “Characterisation of materials for finite element modelling and simulation of viscoelastic foams for use in wheelchair seating” Journal of computational material science, Under review
  3. N Murphy, J Hanley & S Jerrams “The Effect of Pre-Stressing on the Equi-Biaxial Fatigue Life of EPDM”, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber, Dresden, September 2009 and  a Chapter in the book 'Constitutive models for rubber VI', pp 269-273, (2009)
  4. S Jerrams, J Hanley, N Murphy &  H Ali, “Equi-biaxial Fatigue of Elastomers – The Effect of Oil Swelling in Specimen Fatigue Life” Rubber Chemistry and Technology, Vol 81, Issue 4, P 638-649, September/0ctober 2008
  5. J. Hanley, N. Murphy, H. Ali & S. Jerrams, “The Effect of Oil Swelling on the Fatigue Life of Elastomers subjected to Cyclic Bubble Inflation”,  KGK Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe, pp 49-52, January/February 2008
  6. J. Hanley, N. Murphy, H. Ali & S. Jerrams, “The Effect of Oil Swelling on the Multi-Axial Fatigue Life of EPDM, Paper 9, High Performance and Speciality Elastomers”, Fourth International Conference (Published by Smithers Rapra Technology, ISBN 978-1-84735-021-3), 2007
  7. J. McNamara, T. Alshuth & S. Jerrams, “Improving the prediction of stress softening in rubber components”, KGK Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe, pp 670-677, December 2007
  8. S. Ronan, T. Alshuth & S. Jerrams, “An Approach to the Estimation of Long-Term Stress Relaxation in Elastomers” KGK Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe, pp 559-563, October 2007
  9. N. Murphy, J. Hanley, H. Ali & S. Jerrams, “The Effect of Specimen Geometry on the Multiaxial Deformation of Elastomers”, proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber, Paris, September 2007 and a chapter in the book 'Constitutive models for rubber V' edited by A.Boukamel, L.Laiarinandrasana, S.Meo and E.Verron, pp 61-65. (Published by Taylor and Francis, ISBN 0415454425), 2007
  10. S. Ronan, T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams &  N. Murphy, “Long-term stress relaxation prediction of elastomers using the time-temperature superposition method”, Journal of Materials and Design, Vol 28, Issue 5, 2007, pp 1513-1523
  11. S. Ronan, T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams & N. Murphy, “An approach to estimating the long-term stress relaxation of elastomers and separating relaxation processes”, Kautschuk Herbst Kolloquium, Hannover, Nov 2006 and subsequently published in KGK Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe 2007
  12. F. Abraham, T. Alshuth & S. Jerrams, Parameter dependence of the fatigue life of elastomers”, a chapter in the book Elastomers and Components: Service life prediction - Progress and Challenges, ISBN 1 84569 100 8, (Published by Woodhead), September 2006
  13. N. Murphy, J. Hanley, J. McCartin, B. Lanigan, S.D. McLoughlin, S. Jerrams, G. Clauss & R. Johannknecht,  “Determining multiaxial fatigue in elastomers using bubble inflation, proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber”, Stockholm, June 2005 and a chapter in the book 'Constitutive models for rubber IV' edited by P.-E. Austrell and L. Kari, pp 65-70, (Published by A. A. Balkema, ISBN 0415383463), 2005
  14. F. Abraham, T. Alshuth & S. Jerrams, The effect of minimum stress and stress amplitude on the fatigue life of non strain crystallising elastomers, 1st International Conference on Materials and Tribology (MT2002), Sept. 2002, Dublin and in the Journal of Materials and Design, Vol 26, Issue 3 May 2005, pp 239-245 (Elsevier), 2004
  15. N. Murphy, S. Jerrams, C. Spratt, S. Ronan, R. Johannknecht, Method for determining equi-biaxial fatigue in elastomers, Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber, London, Sept. 2003 and a chapter in the book 'Constitutive models for rubber III' edited by J. Busfield and A. Muhr, pp 21-26, (Published by A. A. Balkema, ISBN 9058095665), 2003
  16. F. Abraham, T. Alshuth & S. Jerrams “Ermudungsbestandigkeit von Elastomeren - Einfluss der Spannungsamplitude und der Unterspannung” Teil 2 KGK Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe, pp 674-678, December 2002
  17. S. Jerrams, Friction and Adhesion in Rigid Surface Indentation of Nitrile Rubber, MT2002, Sept. 2002, Dublin and in the Journal of Materials and Design, Vol 26, Issue 3 May 2005, pp 251-258 (Elsevier)
  18. T. Alshuth, F. Abraham & S. Jerrams “ Parameter Dependence and Prediction of Fatigue Properties of Elastomer Products” Rubber Chemistry and Technology Journal, Vol 75, Issue 4, p 365, September/October 2002 and previously presented at a meeting of the Rubber Division, American Chemical Society, October 2001, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  19. F. Abraham, T. Alshuth & S. Jerrams “Dependence on mean stress and stress amplitude of fatigue life of EPDM elastomers” The Journal of Plastics, Rubber and Composites, Institute of Materials, Vol 30 No. 9 pp 421-425, (ISSN 1465-8011) 2001
  20. F. Abraham, T. Alshuth & S. Jerrams “Ermudungsbestandigkeit von Elastomeren (Einfluss der Spannungsamplitude und der Unterspannung KGK Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe” 12/2001, pp 643-647, December 2001
  21. S. Jerrams, K. Sanders & K. B. Goo, “Realistic modelling of earthquake isolation bearings”, Journal of Materials Processing Technology 118 pp 158-164, Elsevier, 2001 and initially presented at Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies AMPT 99, August 1999, Dublin


PAPERS AWAITING PUBLICATION AND PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  1. N Murphy, J Hanley and S Jerrams, “ Equi-biaxial Testing of EPDM – The Effect of Pre-stressing on Fatigue Life” Kautschuk Herbst Kolloquium, Hannover, Nov 2008
  2. J McNam,ara, T Alshuth and S Jerrams “ An investigation of thermal build-up in elastomeric specimens fatigue tested to failure” Kautschuk Herbst Kolloquium,Hannover, Nov 2008
  3. S Ronan, M Santoso, T Alshuth, U Giese,R Schuster and S Jerrams, “The Effect of Thermal Oxidation on the Stress Relaxation of Natural Rubber and Life Time Prediction” Kautschuk Herbst Kolloquium,Hannover, Nov 2008
  4. J Hanley, N Murphy and S Jerrams “The effect of oil swelling on the fatigue life of EPDM samples subjected to equi-biaxial cyclic loading" Time Dependent Behaviour of Rubber Conference, The Rubber in Engineering Group of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, London, Oct 2008
  5. J. Hanley, N. Murphy, H. Ali, S. Jerrams, The Effect of Oil Swelling on the Fatigue Life of Elastomers subjected to Multi-axial Fatigue using Bubble Inflation, 11th International Seminar of Elastomers ISE 2007, Freiberg, Germany, September 2007.
  6. S. Ronan, T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams, Separating relaxation processes: An approach to the estimation of long-term stress relaxation in elastomers, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, IOM3, London, UK, June 2007.
  7. J. Hanley, N. Murphy, H. Ali, S. Jerrams, Swelling Effects in Multiaxial Fatigue of Elastomers, (Paper presented at Polymeric Materials in Automotive, Bratislava, May 2007 and submitted to Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 2007).
  8. J. McCartin, N. Murphy, J. Hanley, S. Jerrams, B. Lanigan, Determining levels of stress softening in multi-axial deformation, Poster for German Institute of Rubber Technology (DIK) 7th Fall Rubber Colloquium (KHK 2006), Hannover, November 2006.
  9. J. Mc Namara, E. Peregi, T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams Stress relaxation predictions and changes in crosslink structure of elastomers, Proceedings of the International Rubber Conference (IRC 2006), Lyon, France 2006.
  10. J. Mc Namara, T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams, Finite Element Calculation and Experimental Determination of Local Softening of Elastomers, Proceedings of the International Rubber Conference (IRC 2006), Lyon, France 2006.
  11. J. Hanley, N. Murphy, H. Ali, S. Jerrams, The effect of swelling on the properties of elastomers subjected to multiaxial fatigue using bubble inflation, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Materials-Energy-Design (MED06), Dublin, March 2006.
  12. J McCartin, N. Murphy, S. Jerrams, J Hanley, Stress softening in elastomeric membranes ~ some preliminary results, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Materials-Energy-Design (MED06), Dublin, March 2006.
  13. J. Mc Namara, T. Alshuth, N. Murphy, S. Jerrams, Improving elastomeric finite element analysis by modelling local strains obtained from photogrammetry, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Materials, Energy and Design MED06, Dublin, Ireland March 2006
  14. S. Ronan, T. Alshuth, N. Murphy, S. Jerrams, Prediction of long-term stress relaxation - relaxation spectra and concepts to separate different relaxation processes, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Materials, Energy and Design MED06, Dublin, Ireland March 2006
  15. S.D. McLoughlin, N. Murphy, J. Hanley, B. Lanigan, C.E. Markham, Measuring biaxial strain in rubber using stereo vision, Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, IMVIP2005, Belfast, August 2005.
  16. J. McNamara, T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams, A comparison of local strains in elastomer specimens using 3D image correlation photogrammetry and finite element analysis, 10th International Macromolecular Colloquium, Gramado, Brazil, April 2005.
  17. S. Ronan, T. Alshuth, R. Schuster, S. Jerrams, Prediction of long-term stress relaxation of elastomers using the time temperature superposition principle, 10th International Seminar of Elastomers ISE 2005, Brazil, April 2005
  18. S. Ronan, T. Alshuth, N. Murphy, S. Jerrams, Long-term stress relaxation in elastomers, 10th International Macromolecular Colloquium, Gramado, Brazil, April 2005.
  19. S. Ronan, T. Alshuth, N. Murphy, R. Schuster, S. Jerrams, Dymanical mechanical shift factors to allow reliable long-term stress relaxation prediction, Presentation to SENAI-CETEPO (Centro Tecnologico de Polimeros), Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil, April 2005.
  20. T. Alshuth, J. Mc Namara, R. Granier, S. Jerrams, N. Murphy, 3D image correlation photogrammetry ~ A tool for determining the physical properties of elastomers, Presentation to SENAI-CETEPO (Centro Tecnologico de Polimeros), Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil, April 2005.
  21. J. Hanley, S. Jerrams, D.M. Kennedy, Development and Tribological Testing of Elastomeric Equine Boots, Tribology in Sport, Institute of Physics, London 2004. T. Alshuth, J. McNamara, R. Granier, S. Jerrams,
  22. N. Murphy Evaluation of local strains in elastomer specimens using 3D image correlation photogrammetry, KHK 2004 (Kautschuk Herbst Kolloquium), Hannover, Germany, Nov 2004
  23. S. Ronan, T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams, N. Murphy, R. Schuster, Long-term stress relaxation in elastomers KHK 2004 (Kautschuk Herbst Kolloquium), Hannover, Germany, Nov 2004
  24. N. Murphy, S. Jerrams, C. Spratt, S. Ronan, A test rig to provide multiaxial fatigue data in elastomers, Matrib 2003, Velaluka, Croatia. J. Hanley, S. Jerrams, G. Woods , Development of a boot for the treatment of problems in equine hooves, MT2002, Sept. 2002, Dublin
  25. J. Hanley, S. Jerrams, G. Woods, Design and Development of a Prototype Equine Boot, Proceedings of the International Manufacturing Conference, IMC-19, Belfast 2002.
  26. N. Murphy, S. Jerrams, C. Spratt, R. Johannknecht Investigation of large cyclical, equi-biaxial stresses and strains in thin elastomeric sheets by bubble inflation (MT2002), Sept. 2002, Dublin
  27. Surface flaws in elastomers and the use of surface treatments (A. Tabakovic, S. Jerrams, B. Bowe, F .Abraham) MT2002, Sept. 2002, Dublin
  28. The dependence on minimum stress and stress amplitude of the fatigue life of non strain-crystallising elastomer, (F. Abraham and T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams) EUROMECH Colloquium 438: Constitutive equations for polymer microcomposites: On the border of Mechanics and Chemistry, Vienna, July 2002
  29. Parameterabhangigkeit und Kriterien der Ermudung von Elastomeren, (F. Abraham and T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams) Fortbildungsseminar: Bruchmechanik und Lebensdauer von Elastomeren, Hannover, DIK, 25-26 March 2002
  30. Predicting fatigue in non strain-crystallising rubbers, (S. Jerrams, F. Abraham) The Institute of Materials, Midlands Plastic and Rubbers Group, Rubber Compounders and Processors Forum, October 2001, Burton College.
  31. Parameter dependence of the fatigue life of elastomers. (F. Abraham, T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams) Service life prediction of elastomer components. Institute of Materials Conference. October 2001, London
  32. Comparison of dispersive mixing screw elements for the continuous mixing of rubber compounds using co-rotating twin screw extruders. (O. Skibba, S. Jerrams, R. Uphus) The International Rubber Conference (Institute of Materials) June 2001, Birmingham
  33. The influence of mean stress on the fatigue properties of natural rubber. (S. Jerrams, A. Tabakovic) The International Rubber Conference (Institute of Materials) June 2001, Birmingham.
  34. The dependence on mean stress and stress amplitude of the fatigue life of elastomers. (F. Abraham, T. Alshuth, S. Jerrams), The International Rubber Conference (Institute of Materials) June 2001, Birmingham.
  35. Processing analysis during continuous mixing of new powder grades on co-rotating twin screw extruders, (O. Skibba, R. Schuster, S. Jerrams and R. Uphus) Kautschuck-Herbst-Kolloquium 2000 ~ Wissenschaftliche Fachtagung, November 2000, Hannover, Germany
  36. Dependence of fatigue life of elastomers on stress amplitude and prestress, (F. Abraham, S. Jerrams and T. Alshuth) Kautschuck-Herbst-Kolloquium 2000 ~ Wissenschaftliche Fachtagung, November 2000, Hannover, German

Technical Reports

      • Confidential report in respect of Company Tax Credit Claim for R&D, CER/SJ/MD/10/03, November, 2010
      • J. Grimes & S. Jerrams, “An assessment of the attenuation characteristics of a polymeric floor covering”, CER Technical Report CER/SJ/JG/10/02 for RJ Mooney, 2010
      • J. McNamara & S.Jerrams, “An evaluation of the physical characteristics of     elastomeric cow mats” CER Technical Report CER/SJ/JMcN/10/01 for Teagasc, 2010