Chemical stress relaxation of chloroprene rubber was studid under combined environment of heat and radiation.
Co-60γ ray was irradiated at various temperatures ranging from 100°C to 150°C. Each decay curve is found to be Maxwellian after a certain period of time. The activation energy of the chemical stress relaxation decreases by irradiation. The rate of the stress decay by irradiation is proportional to 0.85 power of dose rate at 120°C.
A simple additivity between the rate of stress decay by heat K(h), by radiation K(r) and by heat and radiation K(
h+
r) was not observed. And the rate of decay was expressed by the following eq.
K(h+r)=Const×I
αexp(-E'/T)+K(h)
Where I is dose rate,
T is temperature (°K), α is the dose rate dependence and
E' is the coefficient of synergism which is proposed in this paper.
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