8. Computer simulation of network formation in natural rubber (NR)

Published Date
Chemistry, Manufacture and Applications of Natural Rubber
2014, Pages 216–246, doi:10.1533/9780857096913.1.216

• Author 

• T. Nakao

• S. Kohjiya

Abstract:

Computer simulations of the reactions of natural rubber in the cold mastication and sulphur vulcanization processes are discussed. Cold mastication was analysed as polymer chain scission with a limiting chain length, and sulphur vulcanization was investigated as random cross-linking which forms an elastical polymer chain network structure. The simulations, include stochastic theory, kinetics, Monte Carlo method, and molecular dynamics, have been developed to practical use for network formation.

Key words

• cold mastication
• limiting chain length
• sulphur vulcanization
• phenomenological kinetics of vulcanization
• cacade theory
• coarse-grained molecular dynamics

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