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The Three Dimensional Simulation and Development of a Computer Software for Rubber Curing Process by Finite Element Method

In this research, the 3D conduction heat transfer equation was solved by the use of standard Galerkin technique and the finite element model equations were obtained. Based on this model, a computer code was developed in Visual Basic Language for Windows operating system. In this code, the calculation of the state-of-cure and rate-of-cure was also considered. Two curing kinetic models (n-th order and Kamal & Sourour) were selected. In order to show the applicability of the model and computer code, the temperature profile inside a rubber article during the curing process was compared with the experimentally measured data. Comparison showed that there is a very good agreement between the model predictions and actual data.