A study into crack initiation and growth in peroxide-cured silica-filled polybutadiene rubber vulcanisate under a cyclic loading condition
Tóm tắt
Crack initiation and propagation in a peroxide-cured polybutadiene rubber reinforced with silanised silica nanofiller were studied under a cyclic loading condition. The fatigue properties of the semi-transparent rubber samples were tested at a constant strain amplitude, test frequency and temperature. Initiation and subsequent growth of cracks in the rubber samples were observed using an optical microscope as a function of the number of cycles until the rubber samples failed, indicating that there are two distinct stages in the fatigue failure of the rubber vulcanisate. The cracks were initiated after the rubber was flexed for about 2817 cycles and then the cracks grew from 500 μm and reached to a critical length of 4.6 mm and followed a further 897 cycles, leading to a catastrophic failure of the rubber samples. Correlation between the rate of crack growth, dc/dn, and the strain energy release rate, T, was investigated using the power law index, and a new expression for the measurement of the cyclic fatigue life of the rubber vulcanisate was proposed.
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