CANCELLED - Effective Curative Dispersion for Uniform Mechanical Properties - II

Uniform curative dispersion is important in preparation of rubber articles with consistently uniform mechanical properties.  Poor dispersion of curatives resulting from poor mixing will lead to an heterogeneous network  and, thus, significant fluctuations of mechanical properties in the final vulcanizate.  The effect of poor dispersion on fatigue to failure properties was reviewed in Paper #114 at the Fall 178^th ACS Rubber Division Technical Meeting at Milwaukee, WI on October 12-14, 2010.

Evidence of poor dispersion can also be observed by monitoring other vulcanizate final mechanical properties, such as tensile and adhesion characteristics.  This paper studies the effects of the efficiency of curative mixing on such properties in simple rubber compounds.