Study tensile strength and wear rate for unsaturated polyester resin and nitrile butadiene rubber polymer blend

Abstract EN

Binary polymer blend was prepared by mechanical mixing method of unsaturated polyester resin with Nitrile Butadiene Rubber (NBR) with different weight ratios (0, 5, 10 and 15) % of (NBR).

Tensile characteristics and wear rates of these blends were studied for all mixing ratios.

The microstructure of fracture surfaces of the prepared samples were investigated by optical microscope.

The results were showed that strain rates of the resin material increase after blending it with rubber while the ultimate tensile strength and Young’s modulus values of it will decrease.

It is also noticed that the wear rate of resin decreases with increasing of (NBR) content.