Key words: capillary-viscometer, viscosity function, Newton-Raphson procedure, genetic algorithm

This contribution gives an overview about new procedures for the parameter identification for the material characterisation of rubber blends. They are based on a Newton-Raphson procedure and a genetic algorithm. As basis serves an experimental investigation of the viscous properties of rubber blends by means of a capillary-viscometer. Because of simultaneous consideration of wall slippage, temperature and of the die swell, the proposed material characterisation is represented by a coupled system of nonlinear equations. Describing their solutions requires a numerical integration algorithm. For this purpose a generalized Newton-Raphson scheme has been adopted. The verification of the developed parameter identification was done by means of another approach which is based on a genetic algorithm.