Research Article

Mechanical Properties and Mullins Effect in Natural Rubber Reinforced by Grafted Carbon Black

Table 1

Schematic diagrams of Mullins effect mechanisms.

ModelsSchematic diagrams

Detachment of the molecular chains [20]

Slippage of the molecular chains [21]

Disentanglement of the rubber molecular chains [11, 22]

Destruction of the filler aggregates [23]

Rubber shell model [24]