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Rubber is subdivided on:
- natural.
- synthetic.
Natural rubber is extracted from lacteal juice (latex) of rubber-bearing tree
Hevea, and also rubber-bearing plants containing latex in roots.
The molecule of natural rubber consists of links of easily flying hydrocarbon -
isoprene and has everywhere an identical microstructure.
Synthetic rubber was received in 1931 on a method developed by academician
S.V.Lebedev.
Synthetic rubber is received generally from natural and passing oil gases, and
also separate hydrocarbonic fractions of oil processing.
Types of synthetic rubber:
- sodium butadiene, first-ever industrial synthetic rubber, was produced from
ethyl alcohol on the basis of food starch-containing products. Release is stopped
since 1964.
- butadiene - styrene is the most widespread synthetic rubber which turns out
butadiene and styrene copolymerization. Possesses the sufficient durability and
wear resistance,
- butyl rubber is received by isoprene and isobutylene copolymerization, it is
characterized by high gas permeability and chemical firmness,
- polyurethane rubbers differ high wear resistance,
- polychloroprene rubbers possess high petroloil resistance,
- silicone (organosilicon) rubber keeps the properties at temperatures from a
minus 70ºС to +400ºС, surpassing in thermal stability
natural rubber,
- isoprene and divinyl rubbers possess elasticity which came nearer to indicators
of natural rubber, and in some other properties and surpass the natural.
Rubber components.
Except rubber and vulcanizing substance the structure of rubber mix includes
also other components giving to rubbers certain properties:
- curing accelerators (altaks, kaptaks, in number of 1-2% from rubber weight)
reduce time of curing and increase quality of rubber,
- amplifiers (active fillers) - soot, a kaolin, zinc whitewash in quantity to 50%
from rubber weight. Serve for improvement of this or that property of rubber,
- inactive fillers (elutriated chalk, asbestine flour) in number of 30-40% from the
weight of rubber are entered for rubber reduction in cost without noticeable
deterioration of its
properties,
- antiagers (santofleks A, neozon D) in number of 0,5-2,5% from the weight of
rubber are entered for delay of rubber aging under the influence of air oxygen,
sunshine
and other factors,
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- softeners and plasticizers (stearin acid, fuel oil, vaseline oil, pine pitch, etc.) in
quantity from 3 to 20% of weight of rubber improve miscibility of rubber mix
components and do it more plastic and sticky,
- dyes are used for coloring of light rubber mixes in the corresponding colors.
Pigments of a mineral and organic origin are applied.
Properties of rubbers.
The rubber basis on which their physicomechanical,
strength, protective and
other properties depend has defining impact on properties of rubbers.
Temperature with which increase their durability and hardness decrease has
defining impact on mechanical properties of rubbers. Thus the speed of decrease
in values of mechanical properties is higher at rubbers on the basis of
nonsaturated rubbers, and for organosilicon rubbers this speed is minimum.
The most important characteristics of many types of rubbers are their wear
resistance and friction coefficient. For rubbers, as well as for other firm
materials, we distinguish types of wear:
- fatigue,
- abrasive,
- corrosion and mechanical,
- erosive,
- "rolling" - is a specific type of wear for rubbers when at friction of
microroughness of rubber surface are deformed in a roll and come off a surface.
Except above-mentioned properties quality of rubbers is estimated on:
- frost resistance,
- thermal stability or resistance to thermal aging,
- ozone resistances,
- bioproofnesses,
- firmness in liquid environments,
- dielectric properties,
- fire danger.
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