scholarly journals RUBBER ELASTICITY AT LARGE DEFORMATION (II) STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR OF NATURAL RUBBER VULCANIZATES

1976 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 620-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi OKAMOTO ◽  
Junji FURUKAWA ◽  
Shinji INAGAKI
2003 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarek M. Madkour ◽  
Rasha A. Azzam

Abstract Stress-strain measurements were performed on dry and swollen natural rubber vulcanizates prepared using both sulfur as the crosslinking agent and aromatic-based bound antioxidants acting as a second crosslinking agent. The aromatic-based antioxidants were synthesized and analyzed spectroscopically in order to relate the final behavior of the vulcanizates to the nature of the crosslink characteristics. The anomalous upturn in the modulus values of these networks in response to the imposed stress was shown to persist in the dry as well as the swollen state. Since the swollen elastomeric chains cannot undergo a strain-induced crystallization, the abnormal upturns in the modulus values in an absence of a filler were explained on the basis of the limited extensibility of the short chains of networks prepared using two different crosslinking agents in line with earlier modeling predictions. Remarkably, the swelling experiments revealed the increase in the crosslink density of the networks in the early stages of the thermal oxidative degradation procedure indicating a post-cure of the chemically bound antioxidants to the elastomeric chains, which incidentally corresponds to a maximum in the modulus values of the networks. The rheological and other mechanical properties such as the hardness were shown not to have been affected as a result of the incorporation of the chemically bound antioxidants.


1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 673-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Bristow

Abstract Data are reported for the elastic behavior, as described by the parameters C1 and C2, and the equilibrium swelling in n-decane, νr, for cumyl peroxide vulcanizates of natural rubber and cis-1, 4-polyisoprene. For natural rubber vulcanizates the correlation between C1 and νr can be described in terms of the original Flory Rehner equation with χ= 0.41. Tentative evidence is presented which favors this equation rather than the later modified form in which the term in νr1/3 is replaced by one in (νr1/3− νr/2).


1976 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 699-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi OKAMOTO ◽  
Shinji INAGAKI ◽  
Junji FURUKAWA

1961 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Mullins

Abstract The two previous parts of this series described an attempt to relate the physical properties of natural rubber vulcanizates to their network structure. The first established an empirical relationship between the stress-strain behavior of highly swollen natural rubbers in simple extension, and their equilibrium volume swelling in n-decane. It also examined the effect of changes in initial molecular weight of the unvulcanized masticated rubber on these properties, and an empirical correction making allowance for network flaws due to chain-segments terminated by a crosslink at only one end was obtained. The second part gave measurements of the equilibrium volume swelling and the intrinsic viscosity before vulcanization for each of a range of natural rubber vulcanizates which had been prepared by a method which enabled the number of crosslinks to be determined by chemical analysis. These measurements permitted a comparison to be made between (i) the chemical estimate of the actual number of crosslinks introduced and (ii) the number derived from the data on equilibrium volume swelling, by means of the empirical relations derived in Part I. For this purpose, an assumption was made that the stress-strain behavior of highly swollen rubbers was in accord with the predictions of the statistical theory. Recent studies of both the stress-strain properties of highly swollen rubbers and the method of determining number-averaged molecular weight from intrinsic viscosity measurements have provided an improved basis for the quantitative determination of the degree of crosslinking from measurements of physical properties. The results described in Parts I and II of this series are reinterpreted here to take account of both of these developments ; in addition, the effect of the introduction of a correction for a network defect equivalent to chain entanglements is examined.


1976 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 637-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi OKAMOTO ◽  
Shinji INAGAKI ◽  
Junji FURUKAWA

1976 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 628-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi OKAMOTO ◽  
Shinji INAGAKE ◽  
Junji FURUKAWA

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