Effect of Carbon Black on Poisson's Ratio of Elastomers

Abstract

Abstract The experimental method developed is mostly suitable for measuring K of relatively incompressible materials such as members of the elastomer family. The accuracy of K values are estimated to be within ±3% for all rubber specimens. Its use can be extended to plastics with somewhat reduced accuracy. The results show that bulk modulus K for the four different rubbers tested increases almost linearly with carbon black content while the Young's modulus E increases much more rapidly as shown in Figure 3. It is interesting to note that Poisson's ratio v calculated using K and E does not fall below 0.4940 (Figure 5), and the value of v=0.4997 as quoted in engineering handbooks would be reasonable to use for most practical applications where the carbon black content is not excessive.