Effect of Some Lubricants on the Flow Characteristics of ‘EPDM’ Rubber Under Compressive Load
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Abhijit Mukhopadhyay
Abstract
Rubber of different varieties is effectively used in various engineering as well as other applications. As an engineering material it is very useful and suitable for different engineering advantages. Though its use is not new in that sense but in the recent time the use of rubber is gaining popularity due to several property enhancements as a result of varied advanced researches and new developments in this area. Simultaneously with these newer developments, the need of the hour is to find out the behavior pattern of such developments. Amongst various rubber EPDM emerges as a dominant elastomer for major applications in automobiles, construction works, electric and electronic industries due to their outstanding heat, ozone and weather resistance ability along with the resistance to polar substances and steam. In automobiles EPDM has a common use as seals, which includes but not limited to, door seals, window seals, trunk seals and hood seals etc. Frequently these seals are becoming the source of noise due to friction and wear. Thus, proper contact iteration is required to provide optimum and satisfactory performance of those parts. In the present work compression tests have been carried out to realize the flow characteristics of EPDM rubber of different hardness. Cylindrical specimens have been compressed in between two flat mild steel platens of INSTRON in lubricated conditions. Water, talc and grease have been used as lubricants. Flow characteristics like load-vs-elongation, true stress-vs.-true strain, specific energy, hysteresis and loss factors have been estimated from the experimental data. Test results revealed that the compressive flow behavior of EPDM is highly dependent on the hardness and different conditions of lubrication. However, as the properties of any viscoelastic material are very difficult to be predicted, hence more researches and experimentations are needed to arrive at the final conclusion.
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