text: Cavitation is the unstable unhindered expansion of a microscopic void in a solid elastomer under the action of tensile hydrostatic stresses.  This can occur whenever the hydrostatic tension exceeds 5/6 of Young's modulus.
  The cavitation phenomenon may manifest in any of the following situations:
  * imposed hydrostatic tensile stress acting on a pre-existing void 
  * void pressurization due to gases that are generated due to chemical action (as in volatilization of low-molecular weight waxes or oils:  blowpoint for insufficiently cured rubber, or thermal blowout for systems operating at very high temperature)
  * void pressurization due to gases that come out of solution (as in gases dissolved at high pressure)