Publication: Comparative study of natural rubber and acrylonitrile rubber reinforced with aligned short aramid fiber
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2017-12-01
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01429418
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Mahidol University
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Polymer Testing. Vol.64, (2017), 109-116
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Pitchapa Pittayavinai, Sombat Thanawan, Taweechai Amornsakchai Comparative study of natural rubber and acrylonitrile rubber reinforced with aligned short aramid fiber. Polymer Testing. Vol.64, (2017), 109-116. doi:10.1016/j.polymertesting.2017.09.033 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/42195
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Comparative study of natural rubber and acrylonitrile rubber reinforced with aligned short aramid fiber
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© 2017 The aims of this paper are three-fold. The first is to determine the reinforcement of high performance short aramid fiber in two representative rubber matrices, namely natural rubber and acrylonitrile rubber. The second is to ascertain the effect of rubber polarity on the reinforcement. The third is to establish a pattern of reinforcement for use with less studied fibers. The rubbers were reinforced either with only aramid fiber or with a hybrid of aramid fiber and carbon black. The fiber contents were varied at 0, 2, 5 and 10 parts (by weight) per hundred rubber (phr) while those of carbon black were 0, 10, 20 and 30 phr. Conventional sulfur vulcanization was used. It was found that aramid fiber can reinforce both rubbers in the low strain region effectively, although to a significantly different degree. The hybrid carbon black provides additional reinforcement at low to medium strains and allows high strain stress upturn to occur in both rubber matrices. The findings enable the preparation of rubber composites having a wide, controllable range of mechanical behavior for specific high-performance engineering applications. Significantly, they also serve as a benchmark for developing reinforced systems from alternative fibers, particularly those from natural sources.