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Tensile strength is an important indicator for elastomer toughness. However, in filled materials, its dependency on temperature and time appears to be poorly understood. We present experimental tensile data of carbon-black-filled ethylene propylene diene rubber at different temperatures. Tensile strength vs. filler loading exhibited a temperature-dependent S-shape and could be rescaled to collapse onto a single master curve. A model based on the extension of the time–temperature superposition principle, crack deflection, and breakage of covalent bonds is proposed. It successfully predicted the behavior of tensile strength due to the change of the filler particle size and filler amount, temperature variation, and deformation speed typically found in the literature. Moreover, stress relaxation during temperature ramp-up was reproduced correctly. Altogether, the successful modeling suggests that the true toughness of rubber (e.g., chemical bonds) becomes important once enough crack-screening filler is present.

Mastering of Filled Rubber Strength beyond WLF: Competition of Temperature, Time, Crack Deflection and Bond Breaking