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Description Author: R.P. Brown ISBN 978-1-85957-330-3 Published: 2002pages: 106, figures: 3, tables: 4 Summary Rubber components are used in many demanding applications, from tyres and seals to gloves and medical devices, and failure can be catastrophic. This review of rubber product failure outlines and illustrates the common causes of failure while addressing ways of avoiding it....
Description Author: Edited by J. White, S.S. De, and K. Naskar ISBN 978-1-84735-099-2 Published: 2008 Summary This book is a companion volume to Rubber Technologists Handbook published in 2001. Written by experts in their respective fields, this handbook discusses the most recent developments in the subject.The ten chapters cover Microscopic Imaging of Rubber Compounds, Intelligent Tyres,...
Description Author: S.K. De and J.R. White ISBN 978-1-85957-262-7 Published: 2001Pages: 576 Summary Rubber components are found in almost every area of modern life. Rubber is used in cars, in shoes, in construction and is used in many other applications. This book provides a foundation in rubber technology and discusses the most recent developments in the...
Description Author: Munich, Germany, 11th-12th June 2002, Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-85957-316-7 Published: 2002 Pages: 174 Summary RubberChem 2002 - The Third International Rubber Chemicals, Compounding, and Mixing Conference was held in Munich, Germany. This two day event brought together the leading experts in the rubber and related industries. The conference provided an excellent forum for discussing the...
Description Author: Rapra ISBN 978-1-8473-5077-0 Prague, Czech Republic, 3-4 December 2008 20 Pages Summary The sixth international conference took place in December 2008, it ensured all who atteneded were kept up to date with the new regulations, applications and, of course, the ever changing composition of competitive products. The rubber industry continues to face the ongoing...
Description Author: George WypychISBN 978-1-927885-23-9 Published: 2017 Pages: 256 + vi Figures: 203 Summary Self-healing phenomenon, adapted from living things, was for a long time an interesting topic of discussion on the potential improvements of human-made products, but for quite a while it became applicable reality useful in many manufactured product. The book has three major...
Description Author: Report ISBN 978-1-84735-002-2 Frankfurt, Germany, 19-20 September 2006 Summary Silicone elastomers are important materials for many application areas such as automotive, electric and electronics, gaskets, domestic appliances, fabric coatings (e.g. airbags), baby bottle teats, and medical devices. They are increasingly being used to substitute for organic rubbers, because of their advantageous properties, such as...
Description Author: Rapra conference proceedings ISBN 978-1-84375-069-5Published: 2008 Summary Silicone Elastomers 2008 brought together major material manufacturers, such as Dow Corning, Wacker Chemie, Momentive Performance Materials and Bluestar Silicones, looking at market trends and new developments in materials such as LSR and liquid fluorosilicone rubber. SESSION 1: MARKET TRENDS FOR SILICONE ELASTOMERS SESSION 2: LIQUID...
Description Author: Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-84735-395-5 Published: 2009 Pages: 20 papersFormat: Soft-backed Summary The third international conference on silicone elastomers informed the length and breadth of the silicone elastomers supply chain on current research developments and new applications. The application areas of silicone elastomers are widespread due to their wide spectrum of high performance qualities; temperature stability,...
Description Author: Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-84735-627-7Published: 2011 Summary Silicone elastomers have a unique combination of properties not found with organic elastomers, such as stability over a very wide temperature range, good electrical properties and environmental resistance, no smell or taste, high biocompatibility, low softness without plasticizers, and high colourability and transparency. Despite their relatively high...
Description Author: V. M. Litvinov and P. P. De ISBN978-1-85957-280-1 Published: 2002 Pages: 654 Summary This book deals with the application of spectroscopic techniques for characterisation of chemical and physical structures in viscoelastic materials, such as unvulcanised elastomers and their vulcanisates, various rubbery materials and some plastics, which when blended with particular additives (plasticisers) behave like...
Description Author: L McKeen ISBN 9780323221085 Published: 2013 Summary Key FeaturesEssential data and practical guidance for engineers and scientists working with plastics for use in high-temperature environmentsIncludes introductory chapters on polymer chemistry and its effect on thermal stability, providing the underpinning knowledge required to utilize the dataCovers a wide range of commercial polymer classes, saving readers...
Description Author: Peter A Ciullo and Norman Hewitt 10-ISBN 0-8155-1434-4 13-ISBN 978-0-8155-1434-3Published: 1999 764 pages, 500 formulations Summary This book contains two parts: the introduction to the raw materials used in the rubber industry and the formulary part where formulations for final products are given.Eleven rubber elastomers for which formulations are given in the second part are...
Description Author: Professor N. Nakajima ISBN 978-1-85957-207-8Published: 2000 The University of Akron, USAPages: 408, Figures: 235, Tables: 41 Summary Manufacturing rubber products requires the use of many additives. Therefore, mixing of the additives with the rubber is a very important step in the processing of rubber. There has been extensive research to try to understand the...
Description Author: P.P. Dee, N. Roy Choudhury, and N.K. Dutta ISBN 978-1-84735-103-6 Published: 2010Pages: 546 Summary Thermal analysis is a group of techniques in which a physical property of a substance is measured as a function of temperature, while the substance is subjected to a controlled temperature programme. In the differential thermal analysis, the temperature difference...
Description Author: Rapra Technology and BRMA ISBN 978-1-85957-174-3 Published: 1999 Pages 380, Spiral-bound Summary ‘Reliable and authoritative information on the risks associated with the handling and use of chemicals is a prerequisite for their proper control and for preventing risks to health and safety…..To have this key information assembled in a readily accessible and user-friendly form is...
Description Author: P.J. Fardell ISBN 978-1-85957-001-2 Published: 1993101 pages, softbound Summary This Rapra Review Report does not seek to single out synthetic polymers as a special case. It aims to provide an overview of the whole subject of combustion toxicity and a threat to life, whilst supplying specific information on the most frequently encountered polymeric materials,...
Description Author: Rapra Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-85957-450-8 Brussels, Belgium, 15-16 September 2004210 pages Summary To meet the market demands there are many technical developments in hand by TPE manufacturers and compounders such as greater thermal, oxidative and weathering stability; softer grades of premium TPEs; improved properties such as resilience, oil resistance, flammability, smoke emission, fogging, adhesion...