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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.
List of contents
Section 1: Fundamentals of Rubber and Rubber Technology1. 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 Rubbers6. 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 Blends10. 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 Rubber13. 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 Rubbers16. 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 Outlook22. Recycling of Rubbers
23. Utilization of Reclaimed Rubber
24. Rubbers derived biomass and circular economy
25. Future Outlook of Rubber Materials and Technology
About the author
Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields.
Abitha V.K. is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Her areas of research include rubber, polymer blends, fibre filled polymer composites, particulate filled polymer composites and their morphological and structural characterization. Dr. Abitha has written several book chapters, and has co-edited three books with Elsevier.Keloth Paduvilan Jibin is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi College, Iritty Kannur, Kerala, India. He completed his Master of Science degree in Analytical Chemistry in 2016, and was ranked first in the MSc Analytical Chemistry at Mahatma Gandhi University. Jibin has presented several papers at national and international conferences. As part of his work on nanomaterials, he has been involved in projects on optical studies of samarium complexes, synthesized using curcumin, isolated from turmeric extract as ligand, and on the synthesis of Mg and Co co-doped ZnO-based diluted magnetic semi-conductors, for optoelectronic applications. Currently he is working in the area of hybrid polymer nanocomposites for engineering applications. He has published 10 journal articles, more than 10 book chapters and edited two books.
Hanna J. Maria is a Senior Researcher at the School of Energy Materials and the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Her research focusses on natural rubber composites and their blends, thermoplastic composites, lignin, nanocellulose, bionanocomposites, nanocellulose, rubber-based composites and nanocomposites.
