Effect of abrasive particle size on tribological behavior of elastomers

Author(s):  
F Hakami ◽  
A Pramanik ◽  
AK Basak ◽  
N Ridgway ◽  
MN Islam

Effect of abrasive particle size on tribological behaviour of different elastomers was investigated experimentally in this study. The size of abrasive particle size was varied from coarse (425 µm) to fine (82 µm). Wear rate and coefficient of friction were calculated and analyzed accordingly followed by the examination of worn surfaces by a scanning electron microscope to unravel the wear mechanism. Experimental results showed that abrasive size had a significant effect on wear and friction behaviour of the elastomers. As the abrasive particle size increased, wear rate and coefficient of friction also increased at different rates and exhibited different wear mechanisms that changed from friction to fatigue and roll formation. Mechanical properties of elastomers such as hardness, tensile strength, tear strength, and elongation at break also contributed to wear and friction. The effect of elongation at break and tensile strength on wear rate is more pronounced at lower abrasive particle size, whereas hardness and tear strength play a pivotal role at the higher abrasive size.

Author(s):  
Kemal Ermis ◽  
Huseyin Unal ◽  
Meltem Gunay

Glass bead effects on mechanical and tribological properties of the plasticized polyvinyl chloride polymer, which is used for the vehicle's wire and cable insulation, are studied. Glass beads filler is added to the plasticized polyvinyl chloride thermoplastic polymer at ratios of 5, 10, and 20 wt.% by weight in the experimental study. Tensile, hardness, and tribological tests of the plasticized polyvinyl chloride were performed in the study. Tensile strength, tensile modulus, elongation at break, hardness, coefficient of friction, and wear rate values of the glass bead filled plasticized polyvinyl chloride composites were determined for measuring performance. As for the results of the study, the tensile strength, elongation at break, coefficient of friction, and wear rate values decreased while the tensile modulus and hardness values increased with the increase of the glass beads filler content in plasticized polyvinyl chloride composites for use in vehicle’s wire and cable insulation.


2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-199
Author(s):  
G.K. Jana ◽  
C.K. Das

De-vulcanization of vulcanized elastomers represents a great challenge because of their three-dimensional network structure. Sulfur-cured gum natural rubbers containing three different sulfur/accelerator ratios were de-vulcanized by thio-acids. The process was carried out at 90 °C for 10 minutes in an open two-roll cracker-cum-mixing mill. Two concentrations of de-vulcanizing agent were tried in order to study the cleavage of the sulfidic bonds. The mechanical properties of the re-vulcanized rubber (like tensile strength, modulus, tear strength and elongation at break) were improved with increasing concentrations of de-vulcanizing agent, because the crosslink density increased. A decrease in scorch time and in optimum cure time and an increase in the state of cure were observed when vulcanized rubber was treated with high amounts of de-vulcanizing agent. The temperature of onset of degradation was also increased with increasing concentration of thio-acid. DMA analysis revealed that the storage modulus increased on re-vulcanization. From IR spectroscopy it was observed that oxidation of the main polymeric chains did not occur at the time of high temperature milling. Over 80% retention of the original mechanical properties (like tensile strength, modulus, tear strength and elongation at break) of the vulcanized natural rubber was achieved by this mechanochemical process.


2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishnan Ravi Kumar ◽  
Kothavady Mylsamy Mohanasundaram ◽  
Ganesan Arumaikkannu ◽  
Ramanathan Subramanian

AbstractIn the present study, aluminium alloy (A380) composites containing 3, 6, 9 and 12 weight percentage of fly ash particles were fabricated by liquid metallurgy technique. Three different size ranges of fly ash particles (50–75 μm, 75–103 μm and 103–150 μm) were used. The composites were evaluated for hardness, tensile strength, density, dry sliding wear and frictional behaviour. Pin-on disc apparatus was used to conduct wear tests at loads of 20, 30 and 40 N at a sliding speed of 3 m/s for a constant period of 10 min. Results showed that hardness, ultimate tensile strength, wear resistance and coefficient of friction were superior in composites reinforced with coarse fly ash particles (103–150 μm) compared to composites with fine particles. The hardness, ultimate tensile strength and wear resistance increased, whereas the coefficient of friction and density decreased with the increase in weight percentage of fly ash. Wear resistance and coefficient of friction decreased with increase in applied load. Scanning electron microscope investigations of worn-out samples were carried out to study the progress of wear.


2013 ◽  
Vol 773 ◽  
pp. 668-672
Author(s):  
Jun Liang Liu ◽  
Ping Liu ◽  
Xiao Qiang Tang ◽  
Dong Zeng ◽  
Xing Kai Zhang ◽  
...  

In this paper, the blends of natural rubber with waste ground rubber powders have been prepared by mechano-chemical activation method. The influences of particle sizes on both processing performances and mechanical properties have been investigated. The results indicated that: the blends with waste ground rubber powders of smaller particle sizes approached to higher surface tensile and easily mechano-chemical activation, which led to the formation of complete homogenous re-vulcanization cross-linking structure and resulted in the improvements of the whole performances of the final products. The tensile strength, the elongation at break and tear strength approached to the highest value of 20.7MPa, 530% and 33.0 kN/m as the 100mesh waste ground rubber powders were used as the starting materials.


2011 ◽  
Vol 374-377 ◽  
pp. 1325-1329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Bo Huang ◽  
Jia Yu Xiang ◽  
Ping Lv ◽  
Xin Mao Li

Researches of spray pure polyurea technology for hydraulic concrete protection in water conservancy facilities to ensure long term security operation has a great significance. With an emphasis upon mechanical properties and surface morphology of spray pure polyurea coatings comparing before and after aging by means of the artificial accelerated xenon arc lamp(AAXAL) and scanning electron microscope(SEM) in this paper. Besides, the dry-wet circulation resistance performance of coatings wre analyzed through experiment. It is shown that tensile strength, elongation at break and tear strength of coatings increased by 0.2%, 0.5% and 1.7% respectively after AAXAL aging 720h. By contrast, after aging 3000h the results were 22.6%, 3.8% and 17.4% respectively, the tendency of increasing at first and then reducing can be obtained. The mechanical properties reduced slightly for adding defects of coating surface after aging, however, the resistance performance of ultraviolet ray was excellent. The similar development trend of mechanical properties were gained from dry-wet circulation experiment. After aging 200 cycles, the tensile strength and tear strength descended by 4.1% and 1.7% severally but the elongation at break ascended by 5.0%. In a word, it is suggested that the aging of coatings were negligible in dry-wet circulation in short term.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruogu Tang

<div>A series of NR/SBR vulcanizates were prepared by conventional vulcanization (CV), effective vulcanization (EV) and semi-effective vulcanization (SEV) respectively basing on each formulation and optimum curing time. We examined the mechanical properties of NR/SBR vulcanizates including tensile strength, tear strength, elongation at break, modulus, Shore A hardnessand and relative volume abrasion. The results indicated that NR/SBR vulcanizates prepared in different systems differed in mechanical properties. Vulcanizates prepared via CV showed higher tensile and tear strength; vulcanizates prepared via EV had high modulus and hardness, and vulcanizates prepared via SEV performed high abrasion resistance. </div>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenfa Dong ◽  
Ruogu Tang

<div>The water industry used NR was selected for blending with SBR. A series of NR/SBR vulcanizates were prepared through three different vulcanization systems, conventional vulcanization (CV), effective vulcanization (EV) and semi-effective vulcanization (SEV) respectively, basing on each formulation and optimum curing time. We examined the mechanical properties of NR/SBR vulcanizates including tensile strength, tear strength, elongation at break, modulus, Shore A hardnessand and relative volume abrasion. The results indicated that NR/SBR vulcanizates prepared in different systems differed in mechanical properties. Vulcanizates prepared via CV showed higher tensile and tear strength; vulcanizates prepared via EV had high modulus and hardness, and vulcanizates prepared via SEV performed high abrasion resistance. </div>


2008 ◽  
Vol 55-57 ◽  
pp. 341-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanchai Thongpin ◽  
N. Tangchantra ◽  
P. Kaewpetch ◽  
J. Dejkun ◽  
A. Chartsiriwattana

Montmorillonite is a type of clays that has been used to reinforce polymer including rubber. Therefore this research is aimed to modify mechanical properties of natural rubber (NR) using montmorillonite (MMT) comparing with the organic modified montmorillonite (CTAB-MMT) and organic molecule grafted MMT. The affect of MMT, CTAB-MMT and HTMS-g-CTABMMT on cure characteristics of NR were studied. It was found from the research that the increase of MMT content could prolong the scorch time whereas CTAB-MMT and HTMS-g-CTABMMT could shorten the scorch time. The cure times of the compounds in all cases were not much different. In term of mechanical properties, modulus, tensile strength and tear strength of NR/HTMS-g-CTABMMT vulcanizate were higher than those of NR/MMT and NR/CTAB-MMT vulcanizates. Meanwhile, elongation at break of the NR/ HTMS-g-CTABMMT vulcanizate decreased more than the latter cases


2009 ◽  
Vol 87-88 ◽  
pp. 493-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xian Kui Zeng ◽  
Chuan Sheng Wang ◽  
Hui Guang Bian ◽  
Lei Guo

Application of SMR / SBR inner tube with the IIR reclaimed rubber were investigated in the paper. The mechanical properties such as strength, hardness and Mooney viscosity of the materials were measured. The results showed that Elongation at break and tear strength decreased a little, while tensile strength,Viscosity, the air tightness and hardness are improved by adding RIIR in SMR/SBR ,which can accelerate the curing speed of the materials under room temperature. The results indicated that RIIR in SMR/SBR formula can meet the requirement of the processing technology of tube compound.


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