Journal
POLYMER
Volume 54, Issue 11, Pages 2727-2736Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.03.012
Keywords
Natural rubber; Stress-induced crystallization; Quantitative calorimetry
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- Manufacture Francaise des pneumatiques Michelin
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This paper deals with the calorimetric analysis of deformation processes in natural rubber. Infrared thermography is first used to measure the temperature evolution of specimens under quasi-static uniaxial loading at ambient temperature (see Part 1). Then the heat sources produced or absorbed by the material due to deformation processes are deduced from the temperature variations by using the heat diffusion equation. Different main results are obtained from cyclic and relaxation tests. First, no mechanical dissipation (intrinsic dissipation) is detected during the material deformation. Second, strain-induced crystallization leads to significant heat production, whereas the melting of crystallites absorbs the same heat quantity with different kinetics. This difference in kinetics explains the mechanical hysteresis. Finally, relaxation tests show that crystallite melting does not systematically occur instantaneously. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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