Rubber Technology: Manufacture, Processing, Properties, and Applications brings together detailed and comprehensive information on rubber types and processes, guiding the reader from fundamentals through to the latest innovations in the field. Sections introduce structure-property relationships, compounding, processing, testing, and mechanics, and provide methodical discussions on rubber by type, covering natural rubber, synthetic rubbers, liquid rubbers, rubber composites, nanocomposites, and rubber-based blends, as well as major properties such as self-healing, shape memory, and functionalization. The penultimate section covers key aspects in the engineering and industrial utilization of rubber, including modeling and simulation, product manufacture, quality management, and applications.
Finally, the book examines themes relating to the recycling and lifecycle of rubber-based products. This is a valuable resource for academic researchers and advanced students across materials science and engineering, and those from other disciplines who are looking to understand rubber, as well as industrial scientists, R&D, and engineers.
Section 1: Fundamentals of Rubber and Rubber Technology
1. An Introduction to Rubber and Rubber Technology, Structure-Property Relationships, and Terminologies
2. Rubber Testing and Mechanics
3. Dry Rubber Compounding and Processing
4. Vulcanization Techniques
5. AFM Nanomechanics for Rubbers
Section 2: Synthetic, Natural, and Specialty Rubbers
6. Natural Rubber
7. Concept of Self-Healing in Rubbers
8. Concept of functionalization in rubbers
9. Shape memory effect in elastomers
Section 3: Rubber Composites, Nanocomposites, and Blends
10. Rubber-based Composites and Nanocomposites
11. Rubber-based Rubber Blends, Composites and nanocomposites
12. Rubber-based Short Fiber Reinforced Composites
Section 4: Engineering, Modelling, Quality Control, and Applications of Rubber
13. Modeling and Simulation with Rubbers
14. A Practical, Universal Method for Predicting the Fatigue Life of Elastomeric Components - Bubble Inflation and The Concept of Dynamic Stored Energy
15. A Practical, Universal Method for Predicting the Fatigue Life of Elastomeric Components - Dynamic Stored Energy and Complex Modulus Concepts Applied to Swollen Elastomers and Smart Elastomers
Section 5: Applications of Rubbers
16. Rubbers in Tyre Engineering
17. Rubbers in Defence Applications
18. Rubbers in Biomedical Applications
19. Electrospinning of rubbers
20. 3-D printing of rubbers
21. Entrepreneurship Development in Rubber Products
Section 6: Rubber Recycling, Life Cycle Analysis, and Future Outlook
22. Recycling of Rubbers
23. Utilization of Reclaimed Rubber
24. Rubbers derived biomass and circular economy
25. Future Outlook of Rubber Materials and Technology
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