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Effect of Inclusion of Nanofibers on Rolling Resistance and Friction of Silicone Rubber

Hutama, Chapin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1556118372072796

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2019, Master of Science in Engineering, University of Akron, Mechanical Engineering.
With the rapid technology development these days, silicone rubber has become an important material to support our lives from house to industrial scale applications. Moreover, tire industries also considering the superior properties of silicone rubber in their product in applications that require high-temperature resistance to perform. This demand leads material science researchers to search for solutions by intensively studying the potential of nanotechnology to boost the mechanical performance of the materials to make them suitable to perform in extreme and specific conditions. Therefore, this research aims to explore an electrospinning method as a process to generate second phase materials with purpose to reinforce in a form of nanofibers into a room temperature vulcanized (RTV) silicone rubber together with study of the mechanical properties of reinforced RTV silicone rubber such as rolling resistance and the static friction of the material. The reinforcement process by electrospinning method was conducted by using polyether-based thermoplastic polyurethane as the reinforcement material that exhibits excellent temperature flexibility, abrasion resistance and strength to reinforce directly to the liquid silicone rubber to generate several specimens with a different composition ratio of matrix and reinforcement phase in the composite. Furthermore, the experiment was carried out by measuring the rolling resistance properties by using a wooden roller based device inspired by the invention of Dr. Alan Gent [1] and static friction of the material by using the inclined surface coefficient of friction tester to understand the influence of TPU on the RTV silicone rubber.
Shing-Chung "Josh" Wong (Advisor)
Jiang Zhe (Committee Member)
Kwek-Tze Tan (Committee Member)
155 p.
Engineering
electrospinning, nanocomposite, room temperature silicone rubber, RTV, nanofibers, TPU, thermoplastic polyurethane, rolling resistance, static friction coefficient

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  • Hutama, C. (2019). Effect of Inclusion of Nanofibers on Rolling Resistance and Friction of Silicone Rubber [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1556118372072796

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hutama, Chapin. Effect of Inclusion of Nanofibers on Rolling Resistance and Friction of Silicone Rubber. 2019. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1556118372072796.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hutama, Chapin. "Effect of Inclusion of Nanofibers on Rolling Resistance and Friction of Silicone Rubber." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1556118372072796

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