Session: Thursday Afternoon Session B: Analytical Characterization of Rubber (Fall 178th Technical Meeting)

Thursday Afternoon Session B: Analytical Characterization of Rubber

Thursday, October 14, 2010: 1:00 PM-3:30 PM

Chair:

Ali Dhinojwala, The University of Akron

1:00 PM

104

Reinforcement of Rubbers with Short Aramid Fibers

Morteza Shirazi and Jacques Noordermeer, Elastomer Technology and Engineering, University of Twente, Enshede, Netherlands

1:30 PM

105

Ultrasonic Aided Extrusion of CNT- and CNF-Filled SBR Compounds and Properties of Their Vulcanizates

Jaesun Choi, Department of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH and Avraam I. Isayev, Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Department of Polymer Engineering, Akron, OH

2:00 PM

106

Impact of the Direction Dependent Stress Softening On the Multiaxial Material Behavior of Filled Rubber

Hasan Kahraman, Materials Science / Part Design, Chair of Rubber Technology (LFK), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany and Edmund Haberstroh, Chair of Rubber Technology (LFK), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

2:30 PM

107

Nanocomposites of Nitrile (NBR) Rubber with Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Nuthathai Warasitthinon¹, Carol M.F. Barry², Joey L. Mead² and David Norton³, (1)Plastics Engineering Dept. at University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, MA, (2)Plastics Engineering, Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Lowell, MA, (3)NanoDynamics, Inc, Buffalo, NY

3:00 PM

108

The Crosslinked Network in Sulfur and Peroxide Cures

Ed Terrill and James Lewis, Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Akron, OH

3:30 PM

108A

Progress In Ultrasonic Spectroscopy to Characterize Dynamic-Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Elastomers In the High-Frequency Regime

Robert H. Schuster, Dik, Deutsches Institut für Kautschuktechnologie, Hannover, Germany