This edition contains updated and revised material and many new problems that deal with specific issues and allow the reader to test their understanding of the materials. This book deals with some basic principles on which successful use of rubber depends, including how an elastomer is chosen and a formulation developed; why rubber is highly elastic and relatively strong; and how one can estimate the stiffness, strength, and durability of rubber products. Contents: Materials and Compounds. Elasticity. Dynamic Mechanical Properties. Strength. Mechanical Fatigue. Durability. Design of Components. Finite Element Analysis. Tests and Specifications.
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Dr. Alan N. Gent holds a distinguished chair at The University of Akron, where his is the Dr. Harold A. Morton Professor of Polymer Physics and Polymer Engineering. He has been the recipient of a number of awards during his long career, including the NASA Public Service Medal in 1988; the George Stafford Whitby Award from the ACS Rubber Division in 1987; and the 3M Excellence in Adhesion Science Award from the Adhesion Society in 1987.
Gent has published over 180 scientific papers, book chapters, and review articles on rubber and plastics materials, and is a coholder of two British patents and one U.S. patent.
A particularly significant activity that Alan undertook in recent years was his service on the National Research Council's panel, which provided oversight to the space-shuttle solid-rocket booster redesign after the disastrous Challenger explosion. Gent was awarded the NASA Public Service Medal for his contributions. Since the rocket booster problem focused on the rubber seals in the segmented case joint, it is particularly noteworthy that he was the only rubber scientist on the panel.
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This review is from: Engineering with Rubber 2E: How to Design Rubber Components (Hardcover)
Good section on the types of rubber degradation and how to spot them. Also useful is the Parker O-ring guide available for free online. "Failure of Plastics and Rubber Products" by Wright another great companion.
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This book is more broad than deep, but for me was very useful as I was trying to redesign a component made of metal with rubber. Taking advantage of the properties of rubber in components ultimately means having to get pretty involved, and there are vast areas of properties that are hard to characterize and that change with environmental conditions. So, this text won't take you the whole way to fully fledged rubber designer from a standing start, but in my opinion in this area, no text ever will. Its a useful, practical aide for anyone who has a good engineering background, but who may not have had any formal background in design of components made with rubber.
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Elastomers (natural and synthetic rubber) are amorphous polymers to which various ingredients are added, creating what the rubber chemist refers to as a compound. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonrelaxing conditions, dynamic spring rate, mechanical crack growth, maximum tearing energy, pure shear test piece, compression spring rate, minimum tearing energy, trousers test piece, noncrystallizing elastomers, ozone crack growth, bonded rubber blocks, crack growth characteristics, mechanical fatigue limit, effective compression modulus, knotty tearing, tearing energies, elastomer modulus, deformed plot, tear behavior, compression set test, equibiaxial extension, ozone cracks, isolator design, ozone cracking, natural rubber vulcanizate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rubber Chem, New York, Rubber Division, American Chemical Society, International Rubber Hardness, Rupture of Rubber, Lord Corporation, Rubber World, Society of Automotive Engineers, The Ogden, Academic Press, Applied Science Publishers, Formulation Ingredient Amount, Oxford University Press, Rubber Res, University of Akron, Gummi Kunst, International Rubber Conference, Longevity of Elastomers, Material Specification New!
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Elastomers (natural and synthetic rubber) are amorphous polymers to which various ingredients are added, creating what the rubber chemist refers to as a compound. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonrelaxing conditions, dynamic spring rate, mechanical crack growth, maximum tearing energy, pure shear test piece, compression spring rate, minimum tearing energy, trousers test piece, noncrystallizing elastomers, ozone crack growth, bonded rubber blocks, crack growth characteristics, mechanical fatigue limit, effective compression modulus, knotty tearing, tearing energies, elastomer modulus, deformed plot, tear behavior, compression set test, equibiaxial extension, ozone cracks, isolator design, ozone cracking, natural rubber vulcanizate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rubber Chem, New York, Rubber Division, American Chemical Society, International Rubber Hardness, Rupture of Rubber, Lord Corporation, Rubber World, Society of Automotive Engineers, The Ogden, Academic Press, Applied Science Publishers, Formulation Ingredient Amount, Oxford University Press, Rubber Res, University of Akron, Gummi Kunst, International Rubber Conference, Longevity of Elastomers, Material Specification New!
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- Theory of Elasticity (McGraw-Hill Classic Textbook Reissue Series) by S. Timoshenko on page 68, and page 96
- Thermoplastic Elastomers by Aubert Y. Coran on page 68, and page 174
- Properties of Polymers, Third Edition by D.W. van Krevelen? in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Physics of Rubber Elasticity (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences) by L. R. G Treloar on page 69, and page 126
- Physical Testing of Rubber - Third Edition by R.P. Brown on page 173, and page 351
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- Rubberlike Elasticity: A Molecular Primer by James E. Mark in Back Matter
- Rubber Technology: Compounding and Testing for Performance by John S. Dick on page 140
- Finite Element Analysis: Thermomechanics of Solids by David W. Nicholson in Back Matter
- Mathematical Modeling: Case Studies from Industry by Ellis Cumberbatch on page 251
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