Long-Time Creep in a Pure-Gum Rubber Vulcanizate: Influence of Humidity and Atmospheric Oxygen

1975 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. A. Wood ◽  
G. W. Bullman ◽  
F. L. Roth

Abstract The long-time creep of natural rubber cured with a conventional sulfur-accelerator recipe containing no filler can be conveniently shown near room temperature by a plot of ΔE/E1 with a double-abscissa scale, one marked in units of log t and the other in units of t. When experimental data from the present work and from previous studies reported in the literature are plotted in this manner it is noted that invariably the first scale yields a linear relation at short times and the second a linear relation at long times. The limiting linear relations just mentioned suggest the two-constant Equation (2), already proposed as a general creep equation for many materials. In the case of rubber the range of values of t investigated is from about 10 ms as studied by previous investigators to about 70 days in our work and other studies. Any significant deviations from the equation can be noted by inspection of the double-abscissa plot. We found that the equation furnished an excellent representation of almost all our experimental data up to the longest times. In one instance in our work and in a few other cases there was a prerupture increase of ΔE/E1 above the values given by the equation. This behavior can reduce somewhat the upper limit of validity of the general equation. The constants A and B can be evaluated from experimental observations of ΔE/E1 by solving two simultaneous equations obtained from the values at the longest time, at one minute, and at an intermediate time. In the present work, the constant A was essentially the same (about 2.4%/ (unit log t)) when the atmosphere surrounding the specimen was a vacuum, dry nitrogen, or dry air. The value was raised when the atmosphere was room air at 35% relative humidity and became about 4%/ (unit long t) when the air was saturated with water. The constant B was raised tenfold when the atmosphere was dry air instead of dry nitrogen. It was further increased by a factor of about 2, when the air was saturated. The value of B for the specimen in an atmosphere of stagnant room air was still greater than this by another factor of more than 2. It is possible that this atmosphere contained autocatalytic degradation products or other constituents which were removed when the air was bubbled through water or passed over CaCl2. The approximate boundaries of three different regions of time are determinable from the ratios A/B. In the first region, where t is less than 0.1(A/B), ΔE/E1 is approximately linear with log t. In the second region, where t is between 0.1(A/B) and 4.343 (A/B), ΔE/E1 is not linear with either log t or t. In the third region, where t is greater than 4.343 (A/B), ΔE/E1 is approximately linear with t. A fourth region of anomalous increase preceding rupture is sometimes found, especially when B is large.

1992 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 1157-1172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Šolc ◽  
Zdeněk Herman

Intramolecular vibrational redistribution (IVR) is the key phenomenon in unimolecular decomposition of polyatomic molecules energized in collisions, by photon absorption, or formed by association of radical particles. On an ultrashort time scale, the excitation energy is localized at some place (bond) of the molecule. On a middle time scale, energy irreversibly flows from the excited place to the rest of the molecule. On a long time scale fluctuations of the internal energy are reminiscent of a quasiperiodic process. Almost all the relevant experimental data and model calculations suggest that the information concerning the place of excitation in the molecule is lost during 100 fs - 10 ps after excitation. It seems that due to the rapid IVR the laser selective chemistry has in general no promising perspectives.


Author(s):  
Tian Lu ◽  
Qinxue Chen ◽  
Zeyu Liu

Although cyclo[18]carbon has been theoretically and experimentally investigated since long time ago, only very recently it was prepared and directly observed by means of STM/AFM in condensed phase (Kaiser et al., <i>Science</i>, <b>365</b>, 1299 (2019)). The unique ring structure and dual 18-center π delocalization feature bring a variety of unusual characteristics and properties to the cyclo[18]carbon, which are quite worth to be explored. In this work, we present an extremely comprehensive and detailed investigation on almost all aspects of the cyclo[18]carbon, including (1) Geometric characteristics (2) Bonding nature (3) Electron delocalization and aromaticity (4) Intermolecular interaction (5) Reactivity (6) Electronic excitation and UV/Vis spectrum (7) Molecular vibration and IR/Raman spectrum (8) Molecular dynamics (9) Response to external field (10) Electron ionization, affinity and accompanied process (11) Various molecular properties. We believe that our full characterization of the cyclo[18]carbon will greatly deepen researchers' understanding of this system, and thereby help them to utilize it in practice and design its various valuable derivatives.


Author(s):  
Tian Lu ◽  
Qinxue Chen ◽  
Zeyu Liu

Although cyclo[18]carbon has been theoretically and experimentally investigated since long time ago, only very recently it was prepared and directly observed by means of STM/AFM in condensed phase (Kaiser et al., <i>Science</i>, <b>365</b>, 1299 (2019)). The unique ring structure and dual 18-center π delocalization feature bring a variety of unusual characteristics and properties to the cyclo[18]carbon, which are quite worth to be explored. In this work, we present an extremely comprehensive and detailed investigation on almost all aspects of the cyclo[18]carbon, including (1) Geometric characteristics (2) Bonding nature (3) Electron delocalization and aromaticity (4) Intermolecular interaction (5) Reactivity (6) Electronic excitation and UV/Vis spectrum (7) Molecular vibration and IR/Raman spectrum (8) Molecular dynamics (9) Response to external field (10) Electron ionization, affinity and accompanied process (11) Various molecular properties. We believe that our full characterization of the cyclo[18]carbon will greatly deepen researchers' understanding of this system, and thereby help them to utilize it in practice and design its various valuable derivatives.


2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 2881-2885
Author(s):  
Iosif Lingvay ◽  
Gabriela Oprina ◽  
Livia Carmen Ungureanu ◽  
Alexandra Pica ◽  
Valerica Stanoi

The behaviour of copper and insulation paper in various electrical insulating fluids (transformer oils) exposed to thermal ageing at 110�30C for 1000 hours in closed vessels (without access to atmospheric oxygen) has been studied. The processing of the comparative experimental data revealed in all cases that the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the investigated oils decreases exponentially during the heat treatment. In the presence of the copper foil, the oxygen is almost depleted (the dissolved oxygen concentration is approaching zero), indicating a higher affinity of the copper to oxygen than the affinity to oxygen of the investigated oils. In the presence of the copper foil and / or of the insulation paper, the degradation processes of the mineral oils have a pronounced character, explained by the catalytic activity of the Cu2O film that has been formed and by the paper degradation, respectively. A high thermo-oxidative stability was noticed in the case of natural triglyceride oils, particularly for the synthetic ester-based oil.


1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (85) ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
J. H. Bilgram ◽  
H. Gränicher

AbstractThe interaction of point detects in ice has been neglected for a long time. Experimental data obtained from dielectric measurements on HF-doped crystals stimulated a new evaluation of the possibility of an interaction between Bjerrum defects and ions. In a previous paper it has been shown that this leads us to assume the existence of aggregates of Bjerrum defects and ions. In this paper these aggregates and Bjerrum defects are used to explain the dielectric properties of ice, especially the temperature dependence of the product of the high and low frequency conductivity σ0σ∞.The interaction of Bjerrum defects and impurity molecules leads to a dependence of the concentration of frenkel pairs on Bjerrum-defect concentration. At HF concentrations above the native Bjerrum-defect concentration the formation of a Frenkel pair is enhanced. This leads to the fast out-diffusion which has been studied in highly doped crystals by means of NMR techniques.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjana Mishra ◽  
Bighnaraj Naik ◽  
Suresh Kumar Srichandan

Missing value arises in almost all serious statistical analyses and creates numerous problems in processing data in databases. In real world applications, information may be missing due to instrumental errors, optional fields and non-response to some questions in surveys, data entry errors, etc. Most of the data mining techniques need analysis of complete data without any missing information and this induces researchers to develop efficient methods to handle them. It is one of the most important areas where research is being carried out for a long time in various domains. The objective of this article is to handle missing data, using an evolutionary (genetic) algorithm including some relatively simple methodologies that can often yield reasonable results. The proposed method uses genetic algorithm and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) for accurately predicting missing data with higher accuracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 201 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-560
Author(s):  
D. N. Yuriev ◽  
G. V. Zhukovskaya

Research and commercial trawl catches of humpback shrimp Pandalus hypsinotus from the Tatar Strait (Japan Sea) in 2004–2020 were investigated, with bioanalysis of about 45 thousand specimens. Average timing of group molting, spawning, and eggs laying are determined, terms of gonads and eggs development are estimated. Prespawning and molting of the females occur between January-April, with the peaks in early February and middle February, respectively. All oviparous females have 30–40 days to lay eggs, and molt during 50–55 days; the peak of the eggs laying occurs in late June. The males molt in July-August, afterwards the largest individuals change gender and new intersexes are formed. The males have the second molting in October-December, with the peak in late November. In January, after finish of the males molting, a new annual reproduction cycle starts from the prespawning molting of females. Both vitellogenesis and embryogenesis are observed through the year, though females with developing gonads prevail from August to January (because of a long time span between winter and summer moltings while the egg carrying continued 15 months) but oviparous females — from February to July. The individual reproductive cycle of Pandalus hypsinotus in the Tatar Strait lasts 24 months, with 9 months of vitellogenesis (quick growth of gonads) and 15 months of embryogenesis. During the 2-year reproductive cycle, most of females pass through the following stages: i) gonads development (just after eggs laying) when almost all oviparous females (up to 95 % in May) have green gonads under carapace that corresponds to the stage of development «eggs laid — gonads weakly developed»; ii) summer molting from August when females lose hairs on pleopods and the gonads growth accelerates; iii) respawning in January-March (together with the firstly spawning intersexes, with slight delay of the latter); iv) initial developing of eggs during summer; v) stage of «eyed eggs» from December to March; and vi) eggs laying and molting from late March to late May; then the 2-year reproductive cycle repeats.


2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Saccomandi

The mechanical properties of rubber-like materials have been offering an outstanding challenge to the solid mechanics community for a long time. The behaviour of such materials is quite difficult to predict because rubber self-organizes into mesoscopic physical structures that play a prominent role in determining their complex, history-dependent and strongly nonlinear response. In this framework one of the main problems is to find a functional form of the elastic strain-energy that best describes the experimental data in a mathematical feasible way. The aim of this paper is to give a survey of recent advances aimed at solving such a problem.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Realize Realize ◽  
Tukino Tukino

Home industry production results are only traditionally managed as promoted by word of mouth, and sometimes rely solely on the number of visitors to the sales place of the product, so the product takes a long time to increase sales volume. Now with capitalize a set of computers or smartphones that have been equipped with the Internet network can be used as a tool or media to publish all activities / promotional activities undertaken by the domestic business actors. In this activity, business activists will be given material about what the website, especially weblog and its benefits, how to make it, and how to use and manage it properly to support and improve the ability in promoting the product. This is not without reason, because almost all citizens who already have a household business is less understand the use of the internet let alone use the Internet media as one of the media to promote household products that they produce. The main target in the implementation of community service activities is to improve the ability of the community in the utilization of the Internet as a powerful medium as a partner of the government in moving the economic factors.


Author(s):  
Noah Van Dam ◽  
Wei Zeng ◽  
Magnus Sjöberg ◽  
Sibendu Som

The use of Large-eddy Simulations (LES) has increased due to their ability to resolve the turbulent fluctuations of engine flows and capture the resulting cycle-to-cycle variability. One drawback of LES, however, is the requirement to run multiple engine cycles to obtain the necessary cycle statistics for full validation. The standard method to obtain the cycles by running a single simulation through many engine cycles sequentially can take a long time to complete. Recently, a new strategy has been proposed by our research group to reduce the amount of time necessary to simulate the many engine cycles by running individual engine cycle simulations in parallel. With modern large computing systems this has the potential to reduce the amount of time necessary for a full set of simulated engine cycles to finish by up to an order of magnitude. In this paper, the Parallel Perturbation Methodology (PPM) is used to simulate up to 35 engine cycles of an optically accessible, pent-roof Direct-injection Spark-ignition (DISI) engine at two different motored engine operating conditions, one throttled and one un-throttled. Comparisons are made against corresponding sequential-cycle simulations to verify the similarity of results using either methodology. Mean results from the PPM approach are very similar to sequential-cycle results with less than 0.5% difference in pressure and a magnitude structure index (MSI) of 0.95. Differences in cycle-to-cycle variability (CCV) predictions are larger, but close to the statistical uncertainty in the measurement for the number of cycles simulated. PPM LES results were also compared against experimental data. Mean quantities such as pressure or mean velocities were typically matched to within 5–10%. Pressure CCVs were under-predicted, mostly due to the lack of any perturbations in the pressure boundary conditions between cycles. Velocity CCVs for the simulations had the same average magnitude as experiments, but the experimental data showed greater spatial variation in the root-mean-square (RMS). Conversely, circular standard deviation results showed greater repeatability of the flow directionality and swirl vortex positioning than the simulations.


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