A newly developed snow vehicle (SM100S) for Antarctica IV. Low temperature properties of crawler belt

In order to discover a high cold-resistance material for use in the crawler belt of snow vehicles, the physical properties at very low temperatures of a recently developed material, isoprene/butadiene (70/30) random copolymer filled with carbon black, was investigated in comparison with a blended ru...

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Main Authors: Etsuji Maekawa, Yoshihide Terayama
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1992
Subjects:
geo
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15094/00008784
https://doaj.org/article/cb4e44caf3634cde8874634d24a54953
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Summary:In order to discover a high cold-resistance material for use in the crawler belt of snow vehicles, the physical properties at very low temperatures of a recently developed material, isoprene/butadiene (70/30) random copolymer filled with carbon black, was investigated in comparison with a blended rubber NR/BR (65/35) as well as a currently used NR. It has been found that this material can keep rubber elasticity even at low temperatures blow -70℃, though it is somewhat inferior to the other two materials as to strengths such as stress-at-break and tear; and hence, it is considered as quite worthy of a practical test under equipped for a snow vehicle in the Antarctic area.