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- Title
A Novel Method to Characterize the Damping Capacity of EPDM/CIIR Blends Using Vibrating Rubber Balls.
- Authors
Liu, Zhixin; Wang, Kai; Wu, Yongqiang; Zhang, Hanxiao; Hao, Tianyi; Qi, Hongyang; Liu, Bosong
- Abstract
An experimental device fixed with a laser displacement sensor was assembled to investigate the rebound behaviors and damping mechanism of rubber balls prepared with ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM)/chlorinated butyl rubber (CIIR) blends. The result showed that a prediction model was proposed to characterize the damping capacity by using the rebound height of the rubber balls. The lower rebound height corresponded to better damping capacity. A modified equation relating to the rebound height has been obtained from the theoretical derivation on the basis of the dynamic mechanical analysis, showing that the rebound height was affected by the deformation frequency, the external excitation, and the nature of rubber blends. Furthermore, the energy dissipation rate (EDR), defined by the ratio of the height loss to the rebound time, was proposed to further characterize the damping capacity. The EDR value was shown to be highest for the pure CIIR and lowest for the pure EPDM, exhibiting a decreasing trend with the increase in EPDM content in the rubber blends. It can be expected that the damping capacity of the EPDM/CIIR blends decreases with the decrease in external excitation, the conclusion of which plays a key role in the formulation design of viscoelastic damping rubber materials.
- Subjects
DAMPING capacity; DYNAMIC mechanical analysis; RUBBER; BUTYL rubber; ENERGY dissipation
- Publication
Polymers (20734360), 2024, Vol 16, Issue 11, p1447
- ISSN
2073-4360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/polym16111447