scholarly journals Use of waste materials in rubber matrix

2018 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 07009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Pajtášová ◽  
Zuzana Mičicová ◽  
Darina Ondrušová ◽  
Slavomíra Božeková ◽  
Róbert Janík ◽  
...  

The presented paper deals with the use of waste materials as ecological fillers into rubber matrix. Waste materials were used as partial replacement of the commercial filler – carbon black, designated as N339. These prepared rubber compounds were characterized on the basis of the rheology and vulcanization characteristics – minimum torque (ML), maximum torque (MH), optimum time of vulcanization (t(c90)), processing safety of compound (ts), rate coefficient of vulcanization (Rv). In the case of the prepared vulcanizates, physical-mechanical properties (tensile strength, tensibility and hardness) and dynamic-mechanical properties (storage modulus, loss modulus, loss angle tan δ) were investigated. Using the dependency of loss angle on temperature, the selected properties for tyre tread vulcanizates were evaluated, including traction on snow and ice, traction on the wet surface and rolling resistance.

2013 ◽  
Vol 781-784 ◽  
pp. 475-478
Author(s):  
Watcharin Rassamee ◽  
Woothichai Thaijaroen ◽  
Thirawudh Pongprayoon

Natural rubber compound using different silicas, including unmodified silica, admicellar-modified silica and silica with silane coupling agent, were studied. The properties including cure characteristics, mechanical properties and dynamic properties were examined with the comparison of three compounds. The results show that cure characteristics of admicellar silica/rubber compound (Ad-Si/R) was shorter than those of unmodified silica/rubber compound (Un-Si/R) and silane coupling silica/rubber compound (Sil-Si/R). Mechanical properties of Ad-Si/R and Sil-Si/R were better than those of Un-Si/R. In addition, wet grip and rolling resistance analyzed from tan δ (5 Hz) at 0°C and 60°C, respectively, by DMA were found that the wet grip of Ad-Si/R was the best, whereas the rolling resistance of Sil-Si/R was the best, in the comparison.


2021 ◽  
pp. 009524432098815
Author(s):  
Viviane Meyer Hammel Lovison ◽  
Maurício Azevedo de Freitas ◽  
Maria Madalena de Camargo Forte

Silica-filled styrene butadiene rubber (SBR)/butadiene rubber (BR) compounds plasticized with mineral oils are mainly used to produce green tire treads. Previous works have demonstrated that the partial replacement of naphthenic oil (ONAF) by bio-based oils can provide processing and performance improvements for rubber compounds, along with environmental benefits. In this study, two modified soybean oils (esterified, OEST or esterified and epoxidized, OEPX) were investigated with the aim of evaluating the complete replacement of ONAF and determining whether the chemical properties of the oils affect the performance of silica-filled E-SBR/BR compounds, using the compound with ONAF as a reference. The physical properties, curing characteristics, morphology, and dynamic mechanical behavior were evaluated. The use of the modified soybean oils decreased the optimal cure time while increasing the crosslink density and the abrasive wear resistance. Further, the compounds with both modified soybean oils showed a good balance of mechanical properties. The modified soybean oils decreased the glass transition temperature of the rubber compounds, thus acting as true plasticizers. At 0°C, the tan δ value of E-SBR/BR/OEPX increased relative to that of E-SBR/BR/ONAF, whereas at 60°C, the values of the compounds with both modified soybean oils showed slight increases. The tan δ values reveal that compared with E-SBR/BR/ONAF, E-SBR/BR/OEPX has better wet grip and a similar rolling resistance, whereas E-SBR/BR/OEST has a higher rolling resistance. Thus, both modified soybean oils can fully replace ONAF and appear to be extremely attractive plasticizers for use in silica-filled E-SBR/BR compounds employed as green tire treads for passenger cars.


1982 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1547-1568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin R. Fitzgerald

Abstract The results reported here demonstrate the feasibility of investigating the dynamic mechanical properties of carbon black-agglomeration networks over wide ranges of temperature and frequency by measurements on carbon black mixed with oil. From the data displayed in Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6, it is evident that the general levels of audiofrequency elastic compliance and modulus, J′ and G′, change more than two orders of magnitude as the temperature is varied between − 12.2 and 50.6°C; the general levels of loss compliance and loss modulus, J″ and G″, change almost as much. A comparison of measurements at 25.2°C made at the beginning and after the conclusion of the measurements at various temperatures (Figure 7) shows little change except for an increase in low frequency values of J″ which are tentatively ascribed to water absorption due to condensation within the sealed measurement apparatus at low temperatures. From this close agreement of before and after compliance values, it is concluded that the large effects of temperature change on the measured dynamic mechanical properties are reversible and essentially independent of thermal history and/or time. The general level of measured dynamic compliance and modulus of the sample of 50 parts by wt. of N299 carbon black in 100 parts by wt. of process oil are also close to those observed for this same carbon black in a cured tire stock for similar temperatures and amounts of black, although the frequency dependences are different. This result agrees with the measurements previously reported by Payne where room temperature values of G′ at 0.1 Hz for carbon black in paraffin oil and for carbon black-butyl rubber were about the same for the same proportion of carbon black. Thus, at low dynamic stress (or strain) amplitudes, the independent carbon-carbon agglomeration network can evidently influence the dynamic mechanical properties of a tire stock as much or more than the cured rubber matrix. The observed broad retardation/relaxation dispersions of compliance and modulus at each temperature clearly cannot be reduced to a common reference temperature by shifts along the frequency axis so that superposition to give composite functions of compliance or modulus over an extended range of frequency is not possible. However, approximate superposition of some compliance and modulus vs. frequency curves to a common reference temperature can be accomplished by vertical shifts indicating that temperature-magnitude reduction may be successful; such reduced curves are shown and treated more extensively in a separate article.


1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Akhtar ◽  
S. S. Bhagawan

Abstract Dynamic mechanical properties such as storage modulus, loss modulus, and loss tangent have been evaluated over a wide range of temperatures for thermoplastic elastomers prepared from blends of NR and HDPE. It was observed that above room temperature, both storage and loss moduli increased and loss tangent decreased as the HDPE content in the blend increased. The effects of dynamic crosslinking and carbon black filler on dynamic mechanical behavior of 70/30 NR/HDPE blend were also examined. Carbon black increased the storage and loss moduli but lowered and broadened the tan δ peak. On the other hand, crosslinking increased storage modulus and decreased the loss modulus and loss tangent, particularly after the NR Tg. The tan δ peak area which appeared at Tg for NR was proportional to the rubber content in the blends.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Furkan Celtik ◽  
Enes Kilic ◽  
Mustafa Ozgur Bora ◽  
Ekrem Altuncu

Polymeric textile cords, steel cords and steel cables are mainly reinforcing materials that are used in tire production. Polymeric textile cords such as Polyester (PEs), Nylon, Aramid and Rayon are commonly treated with bi-functional resorcinol formaldehyde latex (RFL) to obtain desired adhesion to rubber matrix. PEs cords are known as their poor adhesion to both RFL and rubber compounds due to limited reactivity on the surface and poor reaction extent between methylol and hydroxyl groups of RFL. Increasing carboxyl content on PEs surface or in the rubber compound is one of the best strategies to overcome this adhesion problem. Liquid rubbers, which can co-vulcanize with solid rubbers, are also strong alternatives of process oils with their excellent plasticizing effect without deterioration in mechanical properties of the resulting material. Co-vulcanization also improves the stability of this additive and prevents possible bleeding and migration during service life of the tire. In this study, carboxylated grafted liquid isoprene rubber has been incorporated to rubber compound to improve adhesion in PEs-RFL-Rubber ternary system. Rheological and dynamic-mechanical properties of reactive liquid rubber containing tire rubber compounds have been evaluated extensively, as well as H-adhesion behaviour of PEs cord-rubber composite matrix.


2019 ◽  
Vol 254 ◽  
pp. 04010
Author(s):  
Mariana Pajtášová ◽  
Darina Ondrušová ◽  
Róbert Janík ◽  
Zuzana Mičicová ◽  
Beáta Pecušová ◽  
...  

The presented paper deals with a study of selected rubber compounds as well as their vulcanizates with partially replaced commonly used filler by adding selected alternative fillers. Alternative fillers were mixed into rubber compounds as partial replacement of commonly used filler – carbon black. As an alternative partial replacement of common filler, we have chosen fine fractions of the waste of thermoplastics. The differences of rubber compounds were based on the amount of used alternative filler. We determined vulcanization characteristics of prepared tread compounds and physical and mechanical properties and dynamic mechanical properties of their vulcanizates. From the measured results it can be concluded that studied waste can be used in the function of filler into rubber, as partial replacement of commonly used filler.


2019 ◽  
pp. 152808371987884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhad D Salman

Owing to the high cost of carbon fibres and a necessity for finding alternatives that environmentally friendly, a portion of carbon fibres was substituted by woven jute fibre, with various stacking sequences for military applications. Hot press was used to fabricate the composite and hybrid samples of jute/carbon fibres reinforced polyvinyl butyral film using as a layer. Dynamic mechanical experiments (DMA) were conducted with more focus on the stacking sequences of jute and carbon, with increasing temperature. Results showed that the carbon/jute/carbon (H1) hybrid has the highest storage modulus and loss modulus values compared with other hybrids. Significantly, placing woven jute fibre at the outer layers and carbon fibres at the inner layers provided lower dynamic mechanical properties than that of the hybrids with placing jute at the inner layers. Besides, the damping factor shifts to higher temperatures by hybridization of jute fibres compared with carbon composite. Additionally, glass transition temperature (Tg) obtained from the damping curve and loss modulus exhibits a temperature between 129 and 180℃ for all composites, in withstanding dynamic loads. The dynamic mechanical properties were observed to be decreased with increasing temperature for all laminated composites. From results, it could be deduced that it is possible to reduce amount of carbon fibres in different composites industries with woven jute, thus providing less both cost and harmful environment.


Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 443
Author(s):  
Kunakorn Chumnum ◽  
Ekwipoo Kalkornsurapranee ◽  
Jobish Johns ◽  
Karnda Sengloyluan ◽  
Yeampon Nakaramontri

The self-healing composites were prepared from the combination of bromobutyl rubber (BIIR) and natural rubber (NR) blends filled with carbon nanotubes (CNT) and carbon black (CB). To reach the optimized self-healing propagation, the BIIR was modified with ionic liquid (IL) and butylimidazole (IM), and blended with NR using the ratios of 70:30 and 80:20 BIIR:NR. Physical and chemical modifications were confirmed from the mixing torque and attenuated total reflection-fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). It was found that the BIIR/NR-CNTCB with IL and IM effectively improved the cure properties with enhanced tensile properties relative to pure BIIR/NR blends. For the healed composites, BIIR/NR-CNTCB-IM exhibited superior mechanical and electrical properties due to the existing ionic linkages in rubber matrix. For the abrasion resistances, puncture stress and electrical recyclability were examined to know the possibility of inner liner applications and Taber abrasion with dynamic mechanical properties were elucidated for tire tread applications. Based on the obtained Tg and Tan δ values, the composites are proposed for tire applications in the future with a simplified preparation procedure.


2020 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
M A Zulhakimie ◽  
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Anika Zafiah M. Rus ◽  
N S S Sulong ◽  
A Syah Z A ◽  
...  

Wood powder filler applied to the bio-based and epoxy polymer foams has the potential to reinforce the polymer foam structure. The 'Meranti' wood filler type was used as the filler in this analysis. In order to observe the pore size of each sample when exposed to different hours of UV exposure using optical microscopy (OM), this study was made.This analysis was conducted to compare the mechanical properties of each sample with different filler ratios of 0 wt%, 5 wt%, 10 wt%, 15wt% and 20 wt% at different UV exposure hours, which is 0 hour to 6000 hours with a 2000 hour rapid increase. Using the DMA Q800 TA unit, the mechanical properties were studied. In order to obtain the product of their mechanical properties, samples having a scale of 40 x 10 x 5 mm were clamped into the machine. The results will show the value of tan δ, loss modulus and storage modulus from the DMA test.The tan δ value shows that the high tanδvalue will be produced by the higher ratio filler. In contrast to bio-based polymer foams, epoxy polymer foams with powder fillers have the highest tan δ value. It shows that the higher filler ratio can be reported with the lower tan δ value. As the filler ratio filler in the polymer foams increased, the consequence of storage and loss modulus was found to increase. The greater the modulus of loss and the modulus of storage, the lower the temperature. As energy is lost as heat during UV irradiation exposure, bio-based polymer foams with a high powder filler ratio can dissipate more energy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusrina Mat Daud ◽  
Kamarudin Hussin ◽  
Azlin Fazlina Osman ◽  
Che Mohd Ruzaidi Ghazali ◽  
Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah ◽  
...  

Preparation epoxy based hybrid composites were involved kaolin geopolymer filler, organo-montmorillonite at 3phr by using high speed mechanical stirrer. A mechanical behaviour of neat epoxy, epoxy/organo-montmorillonite and its hybrid composites containing 1-8phr kaolin geopolymer filler was studied upon cyclic deformation (three-point flexion mode) as the temperature is varies. The analysis was determined by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) at frequency of 1.0Hz. The results then expressed in storage modulus (E�), loss modulus (E�) and damping factor (tan d) as function of temperature from 40 oC to 130oC. Overall results indicated that E�, E�� and Tg increased considerably by incorporating optimum 1phr kaolin geopolymer in epoxy organo-montmorillonite hybrid composites.


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