Measurements of flow behavior of four commercially available rubbers and their carbon black compounds were carried out over a shear rate range from 1 to 10
3 (s
-1) at 100°C by using a capillary rheometer devised to measure directly temperature rise due to viscous resistance. It was found that the temperature rise was determined more accurate and faster than usual method and was proportional to a square root of total energy per unit volume and time independent of samples.
Relation between the end correction coefficient and the apparent shear rate was irregular for rubber, which was different from other polymer melts. On the other hand, the apparent shear rate γ
a dependence of the entrance pressure loss Δ
Pent for all samples was written experimentally as
logΔ
Pent∝logγ
a over 3×10 (s
-1) of shear rate. Non-Newtonian flow indices were 0.18-0.22 for raw rubber samples and 0.22-0.42 for compounds. These values were considerably smaller than those of other polymer melts.
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