This reference comprehensively details the analysis, synthesis, and chemistry of thermosetting polymers, blends, and networks and describes practical methods, processes, and formulations of specialized thermosetting polymer materials for industrial applications.

Contains diagrams showcasing the structural transformations that may occur during a cure cycle!

Thermosetting Polymers offers

• a survey of polymer chemistry
• criteria for adequate selection of cure conditions
• procedures and equations to calculate the statistical parameters of a network
• numerous examples and descriptions of compounds containing thermosets, including coatings, adhesives, molding materials, composites, and micronetworks
• the latest rheological and dielectric techniques

and discusses

• preparing rubber-modified thermosets and thermoset-thermoplastic blends and structured networks
• estimating temperature and conversion profiles during the cure cycle
• physical and chemical consequences of water absorption
• the effect of crosslinks on the physical, elastic, and viscoelastic properties of thermosetting polymers
• thermal and humid aging
• yielding and fracture of neat and modified thermosetting polymers

Compiling research spanning two decades, Thermosetting Polymers is an in-depth volume suitable for polymer and materials scientists; plastics, chemical, and polymer engineers; experimental, physical, and polymer chemists; polymer, materials, chemical, and experimental physicists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.