›› 2023, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (10): 125-130.

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Effect of magnesium hydroxide/aluminum hydroxide compounding flame retardant on flame retardant and seismic performance of ceramicizable silicone rubber

  

  • Received:2023-06-08 Revised:2023-07-04 Online:2023-10-26 Published:2023-10-26

Abstract: A type of master rubber was prepared using silicone rubber (SR) as a matrix and mullite fiber (MF), hollow glass microbeads (GB), 2,5-dimethyl-2,5-di(tert-butylperoxy)hexane, CaCO3, and Fe2O3 as additives. Then, ceramic-retardable flame-retardant silicone rubber composites were prepared by adding Al(OH)3 and Mg(OH)2 at different parts ratios through open mixing and vulcanization. The results indicated that GB played a role of bonding bridge at a high temperature and MF acted as a skeleton in the preparation of the ceramic-retardable flame-retardant silicone rubber composites. The rubber composite containing 30 parts of Mg(OH)2 obtained a tensile strength of up to 4.93 MPa, elongation at break of 1 450.73 %, and a limiting oxygen index of 31.8 vol%. The silicone rubber composite with a thickness of 6 mm could burn for 15min at a frequency of 50 Hz, 5 g acceleration, and a temperature of 1 050 °C without burning through.

Key words: silicone rubber, flame retardant, aluminum hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide