Continental Reifen Deutchland 2017-2020

In this Project the parties want to understand the effect of cross-linking in more detail by using computational methods (in particular coarse-grained models of polymers), and to generate a better understanding of structure-property relationship. At the end of the Project the parties expect to have developed a simulation method to predict the influence of network characteristics (crosslink-density, topology, crosslink-functionality and behavior of chemical and physical cross-link) on the molecular damage mechanisms in the compounds.