Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Phenolic Resin/Chlorinated Butyl Rubber Composites

Chlorinated butyl rubber composites were prepared by a compounding and vulcanizing process using phenolic resin (PF) as the vulcanizing agent and carbon black as filler. Instead of using the conventional vulcameter method to determine the vulcanizing parameters, the vulcanization temperature and time were obtained by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and tensile testing, respectively. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) showed that, higher PF content resulted in higher E′ and lower tanδ, and variations of E′ and tanδ with temperature were consistent with the time-temperature equivalence principle. It is proposed that chlorinated butyl rubber using phenolic resin as the vulcanizing agent could be used as potential damping materials in the temperature range 20–100°C and frequencies 0.1–100 Hz.