1. Low-frequency resistance can be dominated by contacts. It was found that silver paint contacts were roughly equivalent to metal contacts bonded during vulcanization. 2. Three electrical regimes are clearly evident, determined by loading: dielectric, percolation, and conducting. 3. Resistance and dielectric constant dispersion for loading above 30 phr agree with Kawamoto's model. 4. Each carbon-black loading results in a distinctive dispersion signature. 5. Dynamic conductivity can be used to delineate persistent and transient carbon-black-structure changes versus composition, DSA, frequency, and potentially other parameters (temperature, stress waveform, etc.). 6. The remaining conductive network during stress is represented by gmin; Δg is determined by network fracture and reformation; gmin−gα is proportional to the amount of remaining transient structure; g0−gα is proportional to the total transient structure; normalized conductivity Z is the remaining-to-total transient-structure ratio. 7. The Δgm=0.525(g0−gα) relation indicates that maximum reformation occurs when approximately half the transient structure is broken down and confirms the correlation between conductivity parameters and transient carbon-black structure.
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