Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of Natural Rubber Reinforced Nanosilica Compounds in Industrial Damper Molding Machines

This research examines the mechanical and damping characteristics of Natural Rubber SIR 20 with rubber technical specifications (TSR) when combined with natural zeolite-nanosilica composites. The findings show that the addition of zeolite modified with amorphous silica as a filler in the TSR SIR 20 Natural Rubber compound improves the mechanical properties of the vulcanization product. Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) is used to investigate the mechanical and damping properties. The results show a significant improvement in the mechanical and damping properties of Natural Rubber Reinforced with Nanosilica Compounds when magnetically modified zeolite is used. In particular, the damping ratio of the Si + Z sample exceeds that of other samples, exceeding ζ > 0.027. These results indicate that nanosilica fillers reinforced with natural zeolites have the potential to be applied to damping devices in considerable industry especially molding machines