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Modeling a cylindrical rubber block of tyre tread compound for predicting the temperature profile under heating condition

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dc.contributor.advisor Walpalage S
dc.contributor.author Kumara CK
dc.date.accessioned 2019
dc.date.available 2019
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/16189
dc.description.abstract In the rubber industry, curing is very important parameter. There are many methodologies are used industrially in order to predict the optimum curing time of rubber product. The methodologies are mainly two types as practical and numerical approaches. In the practical approach, it is used a lot of manual activities to collect the temperature distribution within the rubber product. It is time consuming and non-economical method. Therefore, most of the industries are attempting to develop numerical models for the rubber curing. Nowadays the trend is to develop software-based numerical modellings to predict not only the temperature distribution but also state of cure of the rubber product. In this research it was attempted to predict the temperature profile of cylindrical tread rubber block using a well-known software called Solidwork. The accuracy of the model was verified by practically measured data. In order to match practical temperature profile, with the modelled figures, the thermal properties were changed. Even though there are several thermal properties such as thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity, the critical thermal property is the thermal diffusivity. Based on the results, the prediction of temperature profile with the default settings of the software and fixed thermal properties would not be possible. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject CHEMICAL AND PROCESS ENGINEERING-Dissertations en_US
dc.subject POLYMER TECHNOLOGY-Dissertations en_US
dc.subject RUBBER COMPOUNDING en_US
dc.subject RUBBER PRODUCTS-Curing en_US
dc.subject COMPUTER SIMULATION en_US
dc.subject COMPUTER SOFTWARE-Solidwork en_US
dc.subject RUBBER INDUSTRY-Solid Tyres en_US
dc.title Modeling a cylindrical rubber block of tyre tread compound for predicting the temperature profile under heating condition en_US
dc.type Thesis-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.degree MSc in Polymer Technology en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Chemical and Process Engineering en_US
dc.date.accept 2019
dc.identifier.accno TH4166 en_US


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