Applicability of the following equation which had been obtained on the hypothesis of an average network chain was examined with the cases of unfilled BR, EPDM and PBR (propylene-butadiene alternative copolymer) vulcanizate prepared from peroxide and various accelerators-sulfur curative systems.
f=
kT (α
m/2ln1+α/α
m/α/α
m-1/α
2) +
bGood applicability of the presented equation for many experimental data was confirmed from both the extension and the retraction curve of hysteresis cycle even in the region of large deformation (α>3).The relation between
C1 term of the Mooney-Rivlin equation and the front factor
k or
k (for the value of a retraction curve) in the presented equation, and between
C2 term of the Mooney-Rivlin equation and an additional term
b or
b (for the value of a retraction curve) of the presented equation was discussed on the basis of the experimental data.The front factor
k or
kwas recognized as a parameter that is proportional to the network chain density and
C1 term of the Mooney-Rivlin equation in analogy with the case of SBR vulcanizate.An additional term
b is correlated with
C2 term for BR vulcanizate but the correlation is yet to be established for EPDM and PBR vulcanizate.
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