Abstract: Rubber, owing to its excellent elasticity, strength, insulation, and toughness, is frequently utilized in the manufacturing of critical components such as vibration isolators, seals, and tires. Thermal aging is a crucial factor influencing the mechanical performance of rubber, leading to premature failure of rubber components and consequently diminishing the overall reliability of engineering systems in which these rubber components are employed. The establishment of precise constitutive models for rubber thermal aging is a key factor in effectively predicting the service life of rubber and optimizing the design of its performance. Currently, researchers have conducted a significant number of mechanical property tests on rubber subjected to thermal aging, and various constitutive models for rubber thermal aging have been proposed. The systematic summarization and synthesis of these models are crucial for a comprehensive understanding, application, and further advancement of rubber thermal aging constitutive models. This paper commences with an exposition on the mechanical property variations in rubber under thermal aging. Subsequently, it categorizes existing constitutive models for rubber thermal aging, placing emphasis on the phenomenological empirical constitutive model, the chemically mechanism-based constitutive model, the chemical structure factor-based constitutive model and the physically informed neural network constitutive model, followed by a comparative analysis and introduction of the various models. Finally, future research directions for rubber thermal aging constitutive models are discussed.
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