9th Annual Student Colloquium

Wednesday, October 10, 2012: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Room 205 (Duke Energy Center)
9:00 AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER ADDRESS: The Creation & Management of Knowledge in the Rubber Compounding Industry
Jagdish Patel, Elastomers.Org, Ruabon, United Kingdom and Michael Barretti, Sawyer Business School, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
10:00 AM
C1
Phase-Field Modeling of Strain-Induced Crystallization of Elastomer
Rabia Laghmach1, Thierry Biben2, Laurent Chazeau3, Jean-Marc Chenal3, Catherine Gauthier3 and Etienne Munch4, (1)MATEIS INSA and LPMCN UCBL-CNRS LYON, Villeurbanne, France, (2)Laboratoire LPMCN, UCBL-CNRS Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, (3)Laboratoire MATEIS INSA de LYON, Villeurbanne, France, (4)Centre de Technologies, Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Clermont Ferrand cedex 9, France
10:30 AM
Break
10:45 AM
C2
In-Situ Synchrotron Waxd Investigation of the Crystallized Zone At a Fatigue Crack Tip in Natural Rubber
Pierre Rublon, Bertrand Huneau and Erwan Verron, LUNAM Université, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, GeM, UMR CNRS 6183, Nantes, France
11:15 AM
C3
Impact of High Strain Rate Cycles On the Strain Induced Crystalline Properties of Natural Rubber
Nicolas Candau1, Laurent Chazeau1, Jean-Marc Chenal1, Catherine Gauthier1 and Etienne Munch2, (1)Laboratoire MATEIS INSA de LYON, Villeurbanne, France, (2)Centre de Technologies, Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Clermont Ferrand cedex 9, France
11:45 AM
Lunch Break
1:15 PM
C4
Necking in Silica Filled Poly(dimethyl siloxane) and the Resulting Mechanical Properties of the Necked Material
Oluwaseyi (Shay) Ogebule, Grigori Medvedev and James Caruthers, Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
1:45 PM
C5
Bungee Cord Design and Simulation for Field Tests
Brent Newby, Rubber Program, Ferris State University, College of Engineering Technology, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI and Matt Yang, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI
2:15 PM
C6
Type I & Type IV Circumallergenic Natural Rubber Latex Thin Films
Jessica Lauren Slutzky, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH and Katrina Cornish, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Wooster, OH
2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
C7
Walking Into the Future On Rubber
Veronda Ford, Lintech International LLC, Macon, GA and Bridget Trogden, Chemistry, Mercer University, Macon, GA
3:30 PM
C8
Thermogravimetric Analysis of the Kinetics of the Reaction of Alkoxysilane with Silica
Yuk Yu Law1, Donald Feke1 and Ica Manas-Zloczower2, (1)Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, (2)Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
4:00 PM
C9
Study of Parcial Replacing Carbon Nanotubes in Conventionalcarbon BLACK/NBR Nanocomposites
Nuthathai Warasitthinon, Department of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA and Joey Mead, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, MA