Advances in Elastomers and Rubber Elasticity

✍ Scribed by George Odian (auth.), Joginder Lal, James E. Mark (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 443
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present book is a sequel to "Elastomers and Rubber Elasticity," edited by J.E. Mark and J. Lal and published by the American Chemical Society in 1982. It is also based on papers presented at an ACS Symposium, sponsored by the Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., in this case one held in Chicago in September of 1985. The keynote speaker was to have been Pro­ fessor Paul J. Flory, and his untimely death just prior to the symposium was a tremendous loss to all of polymer science, in particular to those in­ terested in elastomeric materials. It is to his memory that this book is dedicated. There has been a great deal of progress in preparing and studying elas­ tomers since the preceding symposium, which was in 1981. In the case of the synthesis and curing of elastomers, much of the background necessary to an appreciation of these advances is given in the first, introductory chapter.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction to Synthesis of Elastomers....Pages 1-16
Structure and Properties of Tire Rubbers Prepared by Anionic Polymerization....Pages 17-36
Polymer and Chain End Structure in Anionic Diene Polymerization....Pages 37-49
Polyurethane Elastomers with Monodisperse Segments and their Model Precursors: Synthesis and Properties....Pages 51-87
Relationship between Chemical Composition and Hysteresis in Polyurethane Elastomers....Pages 89-102
Morphology and Properties of Segmented Polyurethane-Urea Copolymers Prepared VIA t-Alcohol “Chain Extension”....Pages 103-128
Diene Triblock Polymers with Styrene-Alpha-Methylstyrene Copolymer End Blocks....Pages 129-142
Phase-Selective Curing of Poly( p -Methylstyrene- b -Butadiene- b - p -Methylstyrene)....Pages 143-155
A New Free Radical Approach to the Synthesis of Polydimethylsiloxane-Vinyl Monomer Block Polymers....Pages 157-173
An Overview of the Chemical Modification of Natural Rubber....Pages 175-188
Stabilisation of Rubbers in Aggressive Environments....Pages 189-196
Polymers from Hydrogenated Polydienes Prepared with Neodymium Catalysts....Pages 197-220
A New Crosslinking Reaction of Polyacrylic Elastomer by Onium Salt Catalyst....Pages 221-232
Fatigue Resistance of Polybutadienes and Effect of Microstructure....Pages 233-251
The Influence of Chemical Structure on the Strength of Rubber....Pages 253-267
The Statistical Mechanics of Entangled Networks....Pages 269-278
Calculation of Molecular Deformation and Orientation in Elastomers Using the Flory Network Model....Pages 279-290
Rubber Elasticity, Entanglement Constraints and the Memory—Lattice Model....Pages 291-301
Strain-Induced Crystallization in Rubbers....Pages 303-314
Stress-Temperature Behavior of Stretched Trans-Polyisoprene Networks in the Crystallization Region....Pages 315-328
Intramolecular Reaction and Network Properties....Pages 329-345
The Hydrosilylation Cure of Polyisobutene....Pages 347-360
The Elastic Behavior of CIS-1,4-Polybutadiene....Pages 361-377
Optical Studies of Network Topology....Pages 379-392
Theory of Segmental Orientation in Amorphous Polymer Networks and Comparison with Experimental Determination of Orientation in Polyisoprene Networks by Fluorescence Polarization....Pages 393-406
Study of the Uniaxial Deformation of Rubber Network Chains by Small Angle Neutron Scattering....Pages 407-420
Nonlinear Strain Measures of Rubber Networks and Polymer Melts....Pages 421-433
Back Matter....Pages 435-444

✦ Subjects

Mechanics; Mechanical Engineering