Progress in Rubber and Plastics Technology
Vol. 15, No. 2, 1999

CONTENTS

Biodegradable Thermoplastic Materials
R. Shankar and Eby Thomas Thachil
(Cochin University of Science and Technology, India) 69

Peroxide Vulcanisation of Rubber
David S. Ogunniyi
(University of llorin, Nigeria) 95

Application of Fuzzy Technologies and Neural Networks
in Rubber Industry
Joachim Angstenberger and Richard Weber
(MIT- Management Intelligenter Technologien GmbH,
Germany
Dieter Berkemeier and Matthias Kuhn
(Krupp Elastomertechnik GmbH, Germany) 113

Press Release 121

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Progress in Rubber and Plastics Technology,
Vol. 15, No. 3, 1999

CONTENTS


Obituary

Surface Structure and Associated Tribological
Properties of NR / TOR Blends
Dariusz M. Bielinski and Ludomir Slusarski
(Technical University of Lodz, Poland)
Teresa Kleps and Wanda Parasiewicz
(Institute of Rubber Industry "STOMIL", Poland) 123

Fire Characteristics of Plastics in Telecommunication
Matti Kokkala
(Fire Technology, Finland) 133

Process Analysis of the Mixing Process in the
Transfermix Extruder in Comparison with the Pin
Barrel Extruder (Processing Report)
Annette Krusche and Edmund Haberstroh
(Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV), Germany 145

Structure Characterisation of Elastomers by X-ray
Scattering Methods
T. Murakami, S. Murakami and Y. Ikeda 159

Press Releases 181

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