The main advantages of the use silica instead carbon black in rubber compounds are based on a silane coupling agent. agent to modify surface improves compatibility between and rubber. There two different possibilities modifying by silane: ex-situ in-situ. present work studies differences these processes how they affect in-rubber properties filled SBR compounds.

This paper revisits a well studied leader-following consensus problem of linear multi-agent systems, while aiming at follower nodes' transient performance. Conventionally, when not all nodes have access to the leader's state information, distributed observers are designed estimate state, and coupled via communication network. Then each node only needs track its observer's independently, without...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of coupling agent loading on the natural durability of wood flour/polypropylene composites against white-rot fungi (Trametes versicolor). The blend composites were prepared through the melt mixing of wood flour/polypropylene at 50% weight ratios, with various amounts of compatibilizer (0, 2 and 4 per hundred compounds (phc)) in hake internal m...

Many agent-based models, especially those embedded in environmental systems are formed of coupled submodels each providing a component of the whole model. Coupled socio-environmental modelling is not trivial, with many authors reporting a need to ensure that the resulting model has a consistent, integrated ontology. The matter can be expected to be no different in the specific case of coupling ...