Rubber technology and manufacture (3rd ed)

Natural and synthetic rubbers play an important role in many aspects of modern life, and have been essentials to developments in the automotive, aerospace, building and communication industries amongst many others. There is therefore an enormous range of knowledge that the engineering, designer or technologists working in these fields must have access to, from raw material properties to the behaviour of reinforced and composite materials. This book provides this information.

An outline of rubber technology. The physics of raw and vulcanised rubbers. Raw polymeric materials. The chemistry and technology of vulcanisation. Materials for compounding and reinforcement. Reinforcement by fillers. Processing technology. Principles of compounding. Manufacturing techniques. Testing procedures and standards. Specifications. Professional, trade, research and standards organizations.

Undergraduates, entrants to the rubber manufacturing and associated supplying industries and for the users of rubber products in other industries, public corporations, and government departments.