ABSTRACT
The rheological properties of elastomers can be extremely valuable when selecting elastomers for use as engineering materials and when designing molds to process those elastomers into final product form. The study of rheological properties can be divided into three distinct branches: flow rheology of the uncured state, chemorheology (cure kinetics), and relaxation spectra of the cured and uncured state. The first branch deals with structural aspects of the uncured state, the second involves the chemical transformation of molecules from the uncured state to the cured state, and the third considers relaxation aspects of the cured and uncured states.
