Session: Advances in Material and Processes of Car and Truck Tires-2

Advances in Material and Processes of Car and Truck Tires-2 - Session A

Thursday, October 15, 2015: 8:00 AM-11:45 AM

Co-chairs:

J. Cal Moreland, Michelin North America Inc and Syed K. Mowdood, Pirelli Tyre SpA (Retired)

8:00 AM

Global Tire Survey 2014: Regional Trends for Innerliner and Tread Technologies

Steven Teertstra, Tire and Specialty Rubber (TSR) Business Unit, LANXESS, London, ON, Canada, Rayner Krista, Butyl Rubber Global Research and Development, LANXESS, London, ON, Canada, Luc ter Bogt, Global Techical Service and Application Development, LANXESS, Singapore, Singapore and Alex Lucassen, Performance Butadiene Rubber, Dormagen, Germany

8:30 AM

Interrelation Between Morphology and Relaxation Behavior in Self-Assembled Poly((styrene-stat-butadiene)-Block-Butadiene) Copolymers

Cecilia Aguiar da Silva¹, Mario Beiner², Marc Weydert¹, Hendrik Budde³, Matthias Menzel⁴, Ulrich Wendler³ and Michael Bartke⁵, (1)Goodyear Innovation Center Luxembourg, Goodyear S.A, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, (2)Polymer Applications, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials (IWM), Halle Saale, Germany, (3)Polymer Synthesis, Fraunhofer-Pilotanlagenzentrum PAZ, Schkopau, Germany, (4)Evaluation of materials of medical technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials (IWM), Halle Saale, Germany, (5)Pilot Plant Center, Fraunhofer-Pilotanlagenzentrum PAZ, Schkopau, Germany

9:00 AM

Development of Functionalized High-Cis Polybutadiene Rubber for the Rolling Resistance Reduction of Tires

Sven Thiele, Dominique Thielemann and Malte Wohlfahrt, Synthetic Rubber R&D, Trinseo Deutschland GmbH, Merseburg, Germany

9:30 AM

Polymers and Tyres: A New Insight into Rubber Science and Sustainability

Fabio Bacchelli, Tyre Technical Management, versalis - ENI Group, Ravenna, Italy, Laura Lanzavecchia, Tyre Technical Management, versalis - ENI Group, San Donato Milanese, Italy and Enrico Lucchese, Marketing Manager, Elastomers, versalis - ENI Group, San Donato Milanese, Italy

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

Functionalized Solution SBR Produced in a Continuous Process and its Effects on Tire Properties

Jonathon M. Nienaber, Synthos North America, Cleveland, OH and Natalia Meissner, M.Sc., Research and Development, Synthos S.A., Oswiecim, Poland

10:45 AM

Investigations of Highly Dispersible Silica Types and Silane Types in an OTR Cut Resistant Tire Tread Application

Louis Gatti, Resource Efficiency - Silica, Evonik Corp., Parsippany, NJ, André Wehmeier, Applied Technology, Evonik Industries AG, Wesseling, Germany, Michael Heinz, Applied Technologie Rubber Filler, Evonik Industries AG, Wesseling, Germany and Minh Doc Nguyen, Applied Technologie, Evonik Industries AG, Wesseling, Germany

11:15 AM

The Effect of Silane Coupling Agent Loading in a Silica Filled Model Tread Compound on Predicted Winter and Wet Traction

Jonathan Martens¹, Ed Terrill¹, James Lewis¹ and Richard Pazur², (1)Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Akron, OH, (2)Department of National Defence, Ottawa, ON, Canada