Engineered Rubber Products

"This book covers the engineering of rubber products"--Provided by publisher.

Reverse engineering is widely practiced in the rubber industry. Companies routinely analyze competitors’ products to gather information about specifications or compositions. In a competitive market, introducing new products with better features and at a faster pace is critical for any manufacturer. Reverse Engineering of Rubber Products: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques explains the principles and science behind rubber formulation development by reverse engineering methods. The book describes the tools and analytical techniques used to discover which materials and processes were used to produce a particular vulcanized rubber compound from a combination of raw rubber, chemicals, and pigments. A Compendium of Chemical, Analytical, and Physical Test Methods Organized into five chapters, the book first reviews the construction of compounding ingredients and formulations, from elastomers, fillers, and protective agents to vulcanizing chemicals and processing aids. It then discusses chemical and analytical methods, including infrared spectroscopy, thermal analysis, chromatography, and microscopy. It also examines physical test methods for visco-elastic behavior, heat aging, hardness, and other features. A chapter presents important reverse engineering concepts. In addition, the book includes a wide variety of case studies of formula reconstruction, covering large products such as tires and belts as well as smaller products like seals and hoses. Get Practical Insights on Reverse Engineering from the Book’s Case Studies Combining scientific principles and practical advice, this book brings together helpful insights on reverse engineering in the rubber industry. It is an invaluable reference for scientists, engineers, and researchers who want to produce comparative benchmark information, discover formulations used throughout the industry, improve product performance, and shorten the product development cycle.

Provides authoritative coverage of compounding, mixing, calendering, extrusion, vulcanization, rubber bonding, computer-aided design and manufacturing, automation and control using microprocessors, just-in-time technology and rubber plant waste disposal.

This reference on rubber engineering covers all rubber materials that are of commercial importance in the rubber industry. The book also looks at standards related to rubber analysis and testing.

Rubber analysis plays a vital part in ensuring that manufactured products are fit for purpose. This comprehensive, application-based book with up-to-date referencing covers all important applications and subject area associated with the analysis of rubber compounds and rubber products. Includes characterization of rubber polymers, rubber fumes, identification of extractables and leachables, as well as reverse engineering on compounded products.

ENGINEERING WITH RUBBER Edited by WALTER K. BURTON 1919 FRONTISPIECE. Typical of rubbers diversified industrial application is this Torsilastic rubber spring, which can be engineered to serve as the suspension member for thou sands of industrial, commercial, and automotive uses including stationary motors, industrial trucks, office chairs, railroad coaches, passenger cars, trucks, buses, airplane landing gear, farm implements, drilling equipment, seats of all types, door hinges and springs, streetcars, motorcycles, physical-exercising equipment, truck tail gates, wagons, bicycles, and even built-in ironing boards and rocking chairs. Copyright, 1949, All rights reserved. This hook, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission of the publishers PREFACE When man sots out to build and market a new product a machine for removing dents from automobile fenders, for example he may decide that some rubber parts are needed. He finds it necessary, therefore, to know some of the engineering, application, and design principles involving rubber hose, gaskets, and molded pieces of rubber. In looking about for information, he can pick up a helpful fact here and there from manufacturers pamphlets, folders, and booklets but sometimes he gets lost in a maze of words and pictures. Perhaps he consults the engineering department of some rubber manufacturer but, more likely than not, he goes ahead with his designing, making what he thinks are the proper provisions for whatever rubber parts he expects to include. Then, much too late, he establishes contact with rubber technicians and learns that he will have to make radical changes in design in order to take advantage of theirrecommendations. To help eliminate this confusion, the editor collaborated with The B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio, to gather material for a book dealing with industrial rubber products and their application to industrial uses. This volume is the result. It summarizes, in convenient form, much of the miscellaneous information that was scattered through countless folders, booklets, catalogue pages, price sheet - s, and the minds of technicians. It provides basic information to start the reader on the right track and to induce him, if he happens to be a product designer, to consult with rubber men in the early blueprint stage of a new product. In order to obtain a clear idea of what design engineers and others would like to see in such a volume, an extensive mail survey was conducted and manufacturers were visited personally. Many of the ideas and suggestions that they contributed have been included in this text. The book deals with specific subjects, such as kinds of rubber and their properties, adhesives, latex products, belting, hose, molded and extruded parts, coverings and linings, gaskets, sponge rubber, hard rubber, and rubber mountings. The more important American-made rubbers, formerly classed as synthetic rubber, are included, as are some non rubber materials such as plasticized polyvinyl chloride. The book contains basic information on physical and chemical proper vi Preface ties of various rubber compounds, structural details of industrial rubber products, and typical dimensions. Because of the continuous, rapid growth of rubber science and engineering, many of the precise values in this book may be subject to modification from time to time. It might seem that such a bookwould make it less necessary for the potential user of industrial rubber to consult a rubber technician or manufacturer for assistance in planning a new product or application...

This reference to rubber engineering begins with fundamental concepts and gradually guides the reader to more complex concepts and issues which arise in the field of rubber engineering.