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Some factors affecting the flex life of polybutadiene rubber vulcanisate
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posted on 2019-12-02, 09:54 authored by Muhammad Farooq, Ali AnsarifarFlex life of three different grades of polybutadiene rubber (BR) with highly linear chains, linear chains and long-branched chains was measured. The rubbers were reinforced with a precipitated silica nanofiller, the surface of which had been pre-treated with sulphur-bearing bis(3-triethoxysilylpropyl-)-tetrasulphane (TESPT) coupling agent. The rubbers were cured by reacting the sulphur in TESPT with the rubber chains to produce vulcanisates. The mechanical properties of the rubber vulcanisates such as tensile strength, Young’s modulus, elongation at break, stored energy density at break and tear energy were subsequently determined. The flex life of the rubber vulcanisates was also measured at a constant maximum strain amplitude and a test frequency of 3.17 Hz at ambient temperature. Additionally, the flex life of some unfilled rubber vulcanisates of similar Mooney viscosities cured with elemental sulphur was also measured. For the silica-filled rubber vulcanisate, the rubber with the highly linear chains had the longest flex life and the one with long-branched chains, the shortest flex life. It seemed that a correlation between the flex life and the molecular chains structure might exist despite the crosslink density of the rubber vulcanisates being different and the compounds having silica in them. For the unfilled rubber vulcanisates, the rubber with highly linear chains had the longest flex life and the one with linear chains the shortest flex life. Therefore, it was concluded that the flex life of the rubber vulcanisate was determined, to a large extent, by the molecular chains structure of the raw rubber, irrespective of whether the rubber had reinforcing silica filler, different crosslink densities and different initial viscosities or not. A similar trend was also observed for some of the mechanical properties. For example, the elongation at break was lower and Young’s modulus higher for the silica-filled rubber vulcanisates with long-branched chains than those measured for the silica-filled rubber vulcanisate with highly linear chains.
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University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
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- Materials
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Journal of Rubber ResearchVolume
22Issue
1Pages
23 - 29Publisher
SpringerVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© The Malaysian Rubber BoardPublisher statement
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of Rubber Research. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42464-019-00003-0.Acceptance date
2018-12-15Publication date
2019-01-17Copyright date
2019ISSN
1511-1768eISSN
2524-3993Publisher version
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- en
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Dr Ali Ansarifar. Deposit date: 2 December 2019Usage metrics
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