In this paper, we study fatigue fracture patterns, relationship between the direction of fracture propagation and formation of layer structures, tear resistances, crack resistances at a notch tip produced by repeated stretching, relationship between the direction of crack propagation and formation of layer structures about carbon black filled NR, modified IR, SBR and modified SBR which have different orderly structures of polymers, mobility of molecular chains, the number of physical bonds, types of layer structures of three-dimensional stress fatigued sample.
We make it clear that the tendency of layer structures formation is strong and so fracture surfaces exhibit a peeling pattern about NR; but about modified IR which has weak tendency of layer structures formation and about SBR and modified SBR which have no tendency of layer structures formation, cracks propagate perpendicular to the direction of the principal tensile stresses without exhibiting peeling patterns. And tear resistances, crack resistances at a notch tip and the direction of crack propagation correspond to the anisotropic degree of layer structures, namely the ratio of fracture surfaces energies.
In addition, we estimate effects of physical bonds on activation energies by using a mathematical model of layer structures formation about carbon black filled vulcanizates which have different structures and properties.
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