The aim of this study is to show the relevant physical parameters related to rubber injection moulding, and especially compressibility, vulcanisation and wall slippage. Three materials are studied: an SBR compound, without and with a lubricant, and an EPDM compound. The viscosity is determined by capillary rheometry. The modified SBR exhibits wall slippage. Rheological vulcanisation kinetics are determined with a Moving Die Rheometer. Precise moulding experiments are carried out with an injection moulding machine and a mould equipped with pressure and temperature transducers. At low flow rate, the influence of the curing reaction on the pressure appears clearly especially for the fast curing EPDM. The conditions in which surface scorch defects appear are determined. The SBR with lubricant needs a lower pressure to fill the cavity than without lubircant. A model of mould filling is developed. The material is purely viscous, with a state of cure dependence of the viscosity. A Norton friction law is introduced to take into account a possible slippage at the cavity walls. A compressible calculation in the injection chamber allows a realistic evaluation of the flow rate at the entry of the cavity. The comparison with the experimental data confirms the importance of the compressibility, and the influence of the vulcanisation on the viscosity at low flow rate. In moulding conditions for which vulcanisation is not activated during the filling stage, despite uncertainties on the friction law parameters appropriate to the cavity wall roughness, the agreement with experiments is better when wall slippage is taken into account.
The use of multi‐scale model (MSM) which co‐relates the microscopic and microscopic, temperature and morphology of crystals to each other is an important factor for determination of crystallinity in nanocomposite materials. Based on the MSM, an algorithm made of a combination of “finite volume method” (FVM) and the “pixel coloring method” (PCM) is mentioned. FVM technique is used in the large coarse grid for determination of macroscopic temperature degree and PCM is used for fine scale for investigation of the morphology of crystalline structure. In this article, role of cooling rate, the initial temperature and density of nucleation is studied. It is a novel study that is a combination of MSM with a multi‐scale algorithm is utilized for investigation of nanocomposite crystallization. It is proved that nucleation rate is decreased by increasing temperature and consequently spherulites having larger sizes are created. In nanocomposite samples, latent heat is appeared at 240 K, contrasting in the case of pristine polymer. These phenomena are due to the fact that nanoparticles produce a very large number of nucleating sites. POLYM. COMPOS., 40:E993–E1005, 2019. © 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers
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