The flow behaviors of SBR unvulcanizates loaded with various calcium carbonates of different particle sizes and different surface coating agents were investigated.
When SBR was loaded with the filler, viscosity of filler compounds increased.
This type of behavior may be explained by employing both the theory of rheological volume effects and the apparent free-volume decrease, considering that the results thus obtained depend on the essential difference in the restriction state between filler and rubber molecules.
In the case of the apparent free-volume decrease, apparent activation energy is to be increased.
In the tested filler compounds, apparent activation energy for viscous flow was in all cases nearly equal.
There ore, it is concluded that the increasing mechanism of their resultant viscosity, when tested calcium carbonates used for loading SBR, can be discussed in terms of rheological volume effects.
Experimental results showing that reinforcing effects of surface coating agents are better on the smaller particle size of calcium carbonates can be well explained by Ninomiya theory of effective volume.
Further it is concluded that the concept of the theory of effective volume will also be applicable to experimental fact that the compounds loaded with calcium carbonates which are coated with thioglycollic acid-SBR latex have higher viscosity and that the similar compounds which are coated with fatty acid have lower one.
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