Yield Stress in Frozen Rubbers

1954 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-119
Author(s):  
J. M. Buist ◽  
R. L. Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Yield Stress ◽  
Shear Deformation ◽  
Applied Stress ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Large Temperature ◽  
Shear Stresses ◽  
Tension Tests ◽  
Deformation Properties

Abstract The work reported on the low temperature shear deformation properties of natural rubber and Neoprene-GN gum compounds shows that, under the conditions of storage and applied stress investigated, there is little evidence of a yield effect with Neoprene-GN. It is suggested that the very large temperature-stiffening of this polymer is too great to give the yield effect under the low shear stresses studied. In tension, however, the yield effect is very marked with Neoprene-GN. On the other hand, a definite yield effect is shown as a result of shear deformation measurements on natural rubber stored at −40° C, whereas previous tension tests failed to detect this. It is shown that, under suitable conditions of storage time and at high shearing stresses, a natural rubber unit might fail in service by yielding and giving too much deflection. The more usual type of failure of a shear unit in service arises from loss of flexibility and hence deflection properties; the oil-resisting rubbers are particularly likely to suffer from this defect. The x-ray data on natural rubber and Neoprene-GN gum compounds failed to reveal any evidence of random crystallite formation in the unstretched frozen rubbers. If the yield effect is due to crystallite formation in the unstretched state at low temperatures, then the crystallites are too small to be detected under the conditions of this investigation. In this connection, it is emphasized that a temperature of −40° C is below the temperature for maximum rate of development of crystallization for both rubbers. With both natural rubber and Neoprene-GN, crystallization resulting from stretching occurs more readily and at lower elongations at −40° C than at room temperature. In the case of Neoprene-GN stored at −40° C and then stretched, crystallization does not increase with elongation as it does at room temperature. It is suggested that this is due to the cold-drawn state of Neoprene-GN on stretching after storage at −40° C. These investigations have important practical and theoretical implications. Suggestions have often been made to include a test for crystallization in any characterization of compounds for low-temperature resistance. The results of the present work emphasize that the important factor is the time of storage at low temperature and the effects that this produces on crystallization and yield stress. The presence of crystallization is not so important as its continued development under long period exposure or its reorientation under applied stress.

Time and Stress Effects in the Behavior of Rubber at Low Temperature

1950 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Beatty ◽  
J. M. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Applied Stress ◽  
Dynamic Modulus ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Rate Process ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Stress Effects ◽  
Rubberlike Materials

Abstract The stiffening of rubberlike materials at low temperature involves several different phenomena, sometimes with their effects superimposed. One of these is crystallization. This is a rate process which is generally very fast at high stresses and very slow at zero stress. In these experiments at temperatures near −25° C and under a shear stress of about 148 lb. per sq. in. the dynamic modulus of the rubber increased at a rate convenient to study. Correlation with x-ray data showed that crystallization was very likely responsible for the increase in stiffness. The rate of change of stiffness increased rapidly with increase in applied stress, and there was no optimum rate at −25° C, as has been found for unstressed rubber. The degree of vulcanization influenced the rate of change, tighter cures giving smaller changes. Neoprene-FR, GR-S, and polybutadiene, which ordinarily show little evidence of crystallization, showed very definite, but small increases in stiffness. Mixing GR-S with natural rubber seems to limit the crystallization of the natural rubber rather effectively, but apparently Neoprene-FR does not mix intimately enough with natural rubber to affect the crystallization of the latter appreciably.

The Low Temperature Properties of Natural Rubber as Affected by Reaction with Thiol Acids

1960 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
F. J. Ritter
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Elongation At Break ◽  
Glass Point ◽  
Diffraction Patterns ◽  
Thiol Acid ◽  
Internal Mixer

Abstract It has been demonstrated that the tendency of natural rubber to crystallize at low temperatures can be considerably reduced by the reaction of natural rubber with relatively small quantities of a thiol acid of the RCOSH type. Most thiol acids react already at room temperature with natural rubber. The reaction is very easy to carry out. A simple admixture with dry natural rubber, e.g., on a mixing mill or in an internal mixer, is sufficient. The reaction can also be carried out in solution or in latex. If amounts of thiol acids are used which do not exceed 1 mole %, pure gum vulcanizates can be obtained which show a strongly reduced tendency to crystallize and which nevertheless show a tensile strength of more than 150 kg/cm2. This may be explained by the fact that these rubbers still show appreciable crystallization upon stretching to elongation approaching the elongation at break, as indicated by the x-ray diffraction patterns of the stretched vulcanizates. If the thiol acid rubber vulcanizates are reinforced with carbon blacks, the tensile and tear strengths are much improved. Vulcanizates with very satisfactory room temperature properties are thus obtained, whilst the improved resistance to crystallization is retained, The abrasion resistance and the aging resistance are at least as good as those of comparable vulcanizates of unmodified natural rubber. If low temperature plasticizers are mixed into thiol acid rubbers, the glass point of the vulcanizates can be strongly reduced. TR 10 values as low as −80° C in pure gum vulcanizates and −69° C in carbon-loaded vulcanizates have been obtained. These rubbers, moreover, did not show any crystallization at low temperatures.

Survival of mouse blastocysts after low-temperature preservation under high pressure

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cs. Pribenszky ◽  
M. Molnár ◽  
S. Cseh ◽  
L. Solti
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
High Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Freezing Point ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Embryo Cryopreservation ◽  
Subzero Temperatures ◽  
Survival Capacity

Cryoinjuries are almost inevitable during the freezing of embryos. The present study examines the possibility of using high hydrostatic pressure to reduce substantially the freezing point of the embryo-holding solution, in order to preserve embryos at subzero temperatures, thus avoiding all the disadvantages of freezing. The pressure of 210 MPa lowers the phase transition temperature of water to -21°C. According to the results of this study, embryos can survive in high hydrostatic pressure environment at room temperature; the time embryos spend under pressure without significant loss in their survival could be lengthened by gradual decompression. Pressurisation at 0°C significantly reduced the survival capacity of the embryos; gradual decompression had no beneficial effect on survival at that stage. Based on the findings, the use of the phenomena is not applicable in this form, since pressure and low temperature together proved to be lethal to the embryos in these experiments. The application of hydrostatic pressure in embryo cryopreservation requires more detailed research, although the experience gained in this study can be applied usefully in different circumstances.

Photophysical properties of N719 and Z907 dyes, benchmark sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells, at room and low temperature

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 6182-6189
Author(s):  
Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Optical Spectroscopy ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Photophysical Properties ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cells ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Sensitized Solar Cells

Photophysical properties of N719 and Z907, benchmark Ru-dyes used as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells, were studied by static and time-resolved optical spectroscopy at room temperature and 160 K.

Transition Insulator-Metal and Antiferromagnetic-Paramagnetic Cu Doped in La0.47Ca0.53MnO3

2015 ◽  
Vol 1123 ◽  
pp. 73-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohanes Edi Gunanto ◽  
K. Sinaga ◽  
B. Kurniawan ◽  
S. Poertadji ◽  
H. Tanaka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Magnetic Structure ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Paramagnetic Phase ◽  
Perovskite Manganites ◽  
Antiferromagnetic Phase ◽  
Temperature Transition ◽  
Cu Doping ◽  
Metal State

The study of the perovskite manganites La0.47Ca0.53Mn1-xCuxO3 with x = 0, 0.06, 0.09, and 0.13 has been done. The magnetic structure was determined using high-resolution neutron scattering at room temperature and low temperature. All samples were paramagnetic at room temperature and antiferromagnetic at low temperature. Using the SQUID Quantum Design, the samples showed that the doping of the insulating antiferromagnetic phase La0.47Ca0.53MnO3 with Cu doping resulted in the temperature transition from an insulator to metal state, and an antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase. The temperature transition from an insulator to metal state ranged from 23 to 100 K and from 200 to 230 K for the transition from an antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase.

Color and Antioxidant Changes in Various Natural Rubber Processes

2015 ◽  
Vol 754-755 ◽  
pp. 230-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suwimon Siriwong ◽  
Adisai Rungvichaniwat ◽  
Pairote Klinpituksa ◽  
Khalid Hamid Musa ◽  
Aminah Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Acetic Acid ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Retention Index ◽  
Total Phenolic Content ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Phenolic Content ◽  
Total Phenolic ◽  
Lovibond Colorimeter

Fresh field natural rubber was coagulated by acetic acid, soaked in water at room temperature (WRT) or 70°C (W70) for 1 hr, and then dried in an oven at 40°C. Non-soaked natural rubber samples (NoW) served as a control. Two grades of natural rubber, namely air-dry sheet (ADS) and ribbed smoked sheet No.3 (RSS3) derived from the same latex, were also investigated. All dry rubber samples were characterized with Lovibond colorimeter according to ASTM D3157, as well as with a HunterLab spectrophotometer. Furthermore, all the dry rubber samples were dissolved in a chloroform:methanol mixture (4:1 v:v). The rubber was then precipitated out of the solution with methanol, and the remaining solution was quantitatively analyzed for total phenolic content (TPC). The plasticity retention index (PRI) was determined for all the dried rubber samples according to ASTM D3194. It was found that WRT, W70 and ADS were similar in lightness L*, while RSS3 had the lowest L*. W70 had the lowest redness a*, which increased in the order WRT, NoW, RSS3 and ADS. W70 also had the lowest yellowness b*, which increased in the order RSS3, NoW and WRT and ADS. Moreover, TPC was the lowest for the W70 sample, increasing in the order ADS, WRT, NoW and RSS3. The PRI was highest for W70, and decreased in the order WRT, RSS3, NoW and ADS. All of the PRI values observed were comparatively high relative to blocked standard Thai rubber 20 (STR20).

Effect of Stress Concentration on Laminated Plates

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Sayyad ◽  
Y. M. Ghugal
Keyword(s):  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Shear Deformation ◽  
Transverse Shear ◽  
Deformation Theory ◽  
Shear Deformation Theory ◽  
Laminated Plates ◽  
Shear Stresses ◽  
Normal Strain ◽  
Concentrated Load ◽  
Transverse Shear Stresses

AbstractThis paper deals with the problem of stress distribution in orthotropic and laminated plates subjected to central concentrated load. An equivalent single layer trigonometric shear deformation theory taking into account transverse shear deformation effect as well as transverse normal strain effect is used to obtain in-plane normal and transverse shear stresses through the thickness of plate. Governing equations and boundary conditions of the theory are obtained using the principle of virtual work. A simply supported plate with central concentrated load is considered for the numerical analysis. Anomalous behavior of inplane normal and transverse shear stresses is observed due to effect of stress concentration compared to classical plate theory and first order shear deformation theory.

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