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On heating a chemical reaction took place between the rubber and sulphur which resulted in production of tough elastic rubber that retained its moulded shape. Natural rubber is plastic in nature while vulcanised rubber is elastic. This vulcanisation process led to a rapid development of rubber industry. 

Final moulding the pre-expanded beads are poured into a mould fitted into a press, are reheated with steam and expand to take the shape of the mould. According to the mould shape, the final product can be a finished part or large blocks. Blocks can be cut into panels, boards, etc. 

Because of the precise reproduction of mould shapes, sulphur concretes are ideal for use in interlocking blocks. Housing has been constructed in the United Arab Emirates (25) and Mexico (26) with such blocks. Also an interesting compression mould, postheat process for simple mass-production of interlocking blocks has been developed at the University of Washington (27) and a number of buildings have been constructed from the product. 

Interlocking construction blocks are also a promising field for sulphur concretes. The various types of blocks produced allow easy construction. The close reproduction of mould shape is a major advantage mortarless construction has been employed, allowing use of unskilled labour. Improvements in mix design should lead to a reduction in the quantity of binder required and thus a reduction in cost. 

Typically, five steps, or groups of steps, are involved in the conversion of milk to cheese curd coagulation, acidification, syneresis (expulsion of whey), moulding/shaping and salting. These steps, which partly overlap, enable the cheesemaker to control the composition of cheese, which, in turn, has a major influence on cheese ripening and quality. 

Colours may be manufactured from all these species, provided they are not over-moist. The best jars and pots are made from them, if the clays be treated rightly by the potters in moulds shaped according to the prescribed rule. But this I leave to the potters. 

Thennoplastics are heat softening materials which can be repeatedly heated, made mobile and then reset to a solid state by cooling. Under conditions of fabrication these materials can be moulded (shaped in a mould) by temperature and pressure. Examples of thermoplastics are more numerous than thermosets, e.g. polyethylene, polyvinylchloride, polystyrene, polypropylene, nylon, polyester, polyvinylidene chloride, polycarbonate. Thermoplastics may be further divided into homopolymers which involve one type of monomer, e.g. ethylene polymerised to polyethylene, and copolymers, terpolymers, etc., which involve two or more monomers of different chemical substances. Polymerisation producing thermoplastics and thermoset materials usually follows two basic chemical mechanisms, i.e. condensation and addition polymerisation. 

Blow-moulded polyethylene petrol tanks provide considerable weight savings compared to steel tanks. Corrosion is eliminated, and the complex moulded shapes can fit into spaces above the rear axle, protected from a rear impact. This allows more of the boot space to be used for luggage. 

More or less any material that can be formed into a coherent dough-like substance is a candidate for the use of this technology. As a practical simple rule if the material, when squeezed, can be moulded in the hand, does not show liquid squeezed onto its surface, does not develop a gritty feel, and holds its moulded shape, then it is a candidate material for use of a system based upon the principle of the auger. Of course, this is a very crude assessment technique but it can often be of help at the very first stage of an evaluation. 

Two beech pieces were bonded together with an overlap of 10 mm as follows. The adhesive was applied in sufficient quantity at one end of one beech piece, which was then placed on the lower surface of a PTFE plastic mould shaped like a tiny staircase (Figure 20). The top step of the mould was higher than the lower one by a thickness which corresponded to the total height of the first beech piece and the required thickness of the adhesive. The second beech piece was then pressed on the top step of the mould with an overlap of 10 mm over the lower beech piece. The gap between the two pieces corresponded to exactly the adhesive thickness required. 

Dry fibres are prepressed to the mould shape and held together by a vegetable oil-based low viscous polymer binder (Fig. 10.4). This preform ... 

The term TPS describes an amorphous or semi-crystalline material composed of gelatinized or destructurized starch containing one or a mixture of plasticizo-s. TPS can be repeatedly softened and hardened so that it can be moulded/shaped by the action of heat and shear forces, allowing its processing to be conducted with the techniques commonly used in the plastic industry. The following sections are devoted to a brief description of the basics of starch extrusion and processing and to the more relevant applications of TPS [50, 57, 73-75, 79-81]. TPS or destructurized starch are also known as PLS [82], because of the inevitable presence of non-volatile plasticizers in their composition. TPS is however the predominant term used for these materials. 

The reinforcement material must allow the flow of resin, not only through its thickness but in plane and over relatively large distances. Also the reinforcement must be capable of conformity to complex mould shapes and variations in thickness. 

This is the largest moulding in the assembly, and its material selection is the most interesting. The part is made in semi-plasticized PVC (about 125% plasticizer). At room temperature it is quite rigid. At 60 C, however, it has rubbery properties, i.e. it can be stretched to allow location of other parts, and returns to its moulded shape when released. This allows the ears (pre-moulded) and bristles to be attached while the holder is still warm from the mould. When cool, the holder is rigid, and the brush and ears are firmly and permanently in position, with no possibility of separating later. 

Due to their more rigid, paper-like structure, nonwovens buckle into a complex of sharp, uniaxial bends rather than smooth 3D folds. Attempts have long been made to press-form nonwoven sheets, which have been bonded with a partially cured resin, into a required shape (Hearle, 1960). An ashtray is typically used in experiments. However, rupture or wrinkling seemed an unsolvable problem. More recently, a successful process for making deep moulded shapes has been developed at North Carolina State University (Grissett and Pourdeyhimi, 2009). The nonwoven fabric is placed between the two surfaces of a mould, Figure 1.13(a), and then pressed. 

For a bottle, the process is somewhat similar, except for the machinery which should be different, since the melted polymer is injected into a cold mould shaping the bottle. Thus the two polymers (or the three) are injected into the mould, in succession. The second polymer is injected while the surface of the previous one is still melted. 

One of the most attractive features of the 0-3 design is its versatility in assuming a variety of forms, including thin sheets, extruded bars and fibres, and certain moulded shapes. This type of composite is also easy to fabricate and amenable to mass production. By using the right kind of polymer, the composite can be made flexible to conform to curved surfaces. 

Expanded polystyrene cellular plastics used in building, as boards for insulation (and even as an infill in various concrete structures) and in packaging, chiefly in the form of mouldings shaped to fit round components to act as a container and cushioning agent. 

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