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Rheological Behavior and Rubber Processing

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Flow behavior; Forming

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Rheology describes the behavior of matter under the action of stresses. During the processing of rubber composites, the rubber polymers are subject to a number of processing operations that lead to rubber material to flow. Depending on the rheological behavior of the rubber composites, a number of parameters relevant to quantify rubber processing, for example, the efficiency of mixing, the required drive power of processing equipment, or the pressure drop needed to form a rubber part in a cavity of a compression mold, are determined. Beside the molecular structure of the rubber polymers the presence of reinforcing fillers has a strong influence on the rheological behavior of rubber compounds. Especially the formation of filler-filler networks and filler-polymer networks changes the flow behavior of the neat rubber polymers a great deal. In the present chapter, the basic rubber processing operations will be briefly described, followed by a...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Materials Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Sven Wiessner

  2. Department of Elastomers, Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Hohe Straße 6, 01069, Dresden, Germany

    Sven Wiessner

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  1. Center for Fiber and Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Shiro Kobayashi

  2. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

    Klaus Müllen

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Wiessner, S. (2015). Rheological Behavior and Rubber Processing. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29648-2_304

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