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Engineering with Rubber 2E: How to Design Rubber Components

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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.

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.

I've been looking for a good book with helpful information on designing rubber parts. The books I've picked up in the past focus too much chemistry and not enough on the mechanics. I found this book very helpful.