The development and optimization of rubber compounds for the rubber industry is greatly facilitated by advance knowledge of characteristic values for a large number of compound ingredients, as well as information on how these ingredients influence the processing operation and the properties of the vulcanized product.

In this brief but valuable volume, these characteristic values and their functional correlations, which previously were scattered across a wide range of reference books, journal articles, conference proceedings, and company literature, are combined. The equations and calculation methods presented in Elastomer Processing: Formulas and Tables, together with the various product tables, can be used to calculate influences on the property profile of compound systems from the functional relationships presented. The time and outlay spent on experimental work can thus be reduced, and the risk of erroneous developments can be minimized.

From the Preface: “...The main principle [of this book is] to provide a fundamental tool for chemists working in the field of compounding, using calculation functions, evaluation methods, and tables of material characteristics. We hope that this edition, too, will meet the challenge to render more transparency to the experts concerning relations between material properties and those of compounds and vulcanizates as well as technological processes, and to make literature work easier to solve daily problems. However this book is not supposed to and cannot replace textbooks on rubber processing...”

Target Audience: Rubber chemists, engineers and processors; materials engineers; and students interested in rubber compounding and related fields.

Table of Contents:

Compounds

Vulcanizates

Polymers

Carbon Black

Plasticizers

Rubber/Carbon Black/Plasticizer Systems

Cure

Rubber to Metal Bonding

Aging

Characterising Properties of Raw Materials and Additives

Statistical Calculation Procedures

Signs, Abbreviations and Sources on Toxicity of Chemicals

Appendix

Index