Effect of Thermal Aging on Deformation Properties of Nitrile-Butadiene Rubber: Atomic Force Microscopy Data

Abstract

The effect of thermal treatment in air and SZhR-3 on BNKS-18 nitrile-butadiene rubber is studied in this work. A stretching device compatible with an atomic force microscope is developed to study the thermal effects on a change in surface structure of BNKS-18 during deformation. There are structural rearrangements in the surface during deformation and a change in the Poisson ratio and surface roughness of BNKS-18 before and after thermal treatment.