Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Cross-Linked Rubbers. VII. Butyl Rubber Networks
Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Cross-Linked Rubbers. VII. Butyl Rubber Networks
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DOI:
10.1021/ma60041a025
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发表时间:
1974-09
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
J. F. Sanders;J. Ferry
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作者:
J. F. Sanders;J. Ferry
The linear viscoelastic properties of seven samples of butyl rubber, cross-linked by sulfur to different extents, have been studied in shear by dynamic and creep measurements. The frequency and temperature ranges were 0.1 to 600 Hz and—25 to 55, and creep times extended to 105 sec. The creep data were converted to the corre-sponding dynamic viscoelastic functions at very low frequencies. All data were reduced to To= 298 K by shift factors calculatedfrom the equation log=—9.03 (T-To)/(201.6+ T— To). All the viscoelastic functions displayed two principal regions of frequency dependence. The behavior in thetransition zone (higher frequencies) was closely similar for all degrees of cross-linking and for the nearly chemicallyidentical uncross-linked polymer polyisobutylene. There was a slight shift to longer times with increasing cross-linking. The plateau compliance JeN was obtained by suitable integrations of the loss compliance J" or the retardation spectrum L. Its reciprocal, Gen, in-creased somewhat with the degree of cross-linking; it was extrapolated to 2.9 X 106 dyn/cm2 to zero cross-linking, again in reasonable agreement with that of polyisobutylene and correspondingto an average molecular weight be-tween entanglements of 8500. From measurements at low frequencies or long times, the contributions of slow mechanisms to L are found to increase rapidly with diminishing cross-linking as found for other rubberlike polymers. Data for several lightly cross-linked polymers with comparable ratios of cross-link spacing to entanglement spacing were compared with the time scale reduced tocorresponding states of molecular mobility as gauged by the mono-meric friction coefficient. The broad secondary maximum in L occurs at approximately the same point on the re-duced time scale (within a decade), indicating that the long-range motions responsible for theslow mechanisms are similar in all the polymers.In previous papers of this series, viscoelastic properties of various cross-linked rubbers were described, including natural rubber, 2 1, 4-polybutadiene, 3 styrene-butadiene rubber, 4 and poly (dimethylsiloxane). 5 Particular attention was devoted to relaxation times which are observed in net-works with low degrees of cross-linking and have been at-tributed primarily to motion of untrapped entangle-ments. 5· 6 In the present study, similar data are reported for butyl rubber. This polymer is of particular interest because it has a far lower molecular mobility than any of those previously investigated; 7 this behavior has been attributed to differences in local motions, associated with the strong ste-ric hindrance of the methyl groups. 8