Glass Transition Temperatures of Polymers

Mechanism of rubber abrasion. Part I: Abrasion pattern formation in natural rubber vulcanizate

A pneumatic radial-ply tire having a tread constructed of at least two kinds of rubber which is capable of attaining both braking performance and rolling resistance. The tread portion is constructed so that the tread center zone is comprised of a rubber having a low hysteresis loss and the tread side zones adjacent to the center zone on both sides thereof or the outer layers of them are each comprised of a rubber having a high hysteresis loss; the tread center zone and the tread side zones are disposed in parallel to each other in the circumferential direction or the tread side zones are each disposed adjoining to the tread center zone and in a superposing manner.

Pneumatic tire having a tread constructed of at least two kinds of rubbers

The study of polymer interfaces is of prime importance in the field of tyre technology due to the critical role these contribute to tyre operation. The paper reviews the main polymer interfaces present in a tyre—(1) tyre/road (tyre wear or abrasion; tyre traction/skid resistance); (2) polymer/filler (carbon black; silica); (3) polymer/cord (brass coated steel wire; textile—rayon, nylon, polyester, aramid); (4) compound/compound (tack); (5) tyre/air (oxygen/ozone protection)—with respect to the criteria required, physical and chemical, to achieve optimum performance.

A Review of Polymer Interfaces in Tyre Technology

Tire treadwear: The joint influ7ence of Tg, tread composition and environmental factors. A proposed ‘two-mechanism’ theory of treadwater

1. Car, wheel position, driver, inflation pressure, and shoulder drop have a statistically significant effect upon wear loss and need to bo taken into consideration before material factors affecting wear can be studied. 2. Variations in macrostructure of the polymers are not found to have a significant effect on wear as compared to microstructure variations. 3. At least two material factors control wear loss of tire treads. 4. When polymers are tested near their glass transition temperature (within 80° C), wear loss is dominated by viscoelastic properties. Viscoelastic properties can be related to wear loss through Tg or the combined effect of the cis, trans, vinyl, and styrene content. 5. At higher test temperatures (over 100° C above Tg) wear loss is dominated by a material factor that has a positive correlation with temperature. This is particularly noticeable when treads are worn under mild conditions. However, there is evidence that this wear factor is present at the testing nearer to Tg but...

E. S. Dizon

Papers

Tread Wear and Wet Skid Resistance of Butadiene-Styrene Elastomers and Blends