Reaction Injection Molding and Fast Polymerization Reactions

I. Development of RIM in the U.S.A. and Japan.- Future of RIM Development in the U.S.A. in the 1980's.- RIM and RRIM Development in Japan.- II. Polyurethane RIM Systems - Structure/Properties Relationship.- Studies of the Formation and Properties of Polyurethanes Suitable for RIM.- RIM Urethanes Structure/Property Relationships for Linear Polymers.- The Effect of Hard Segment Content on a Cross-linked Polyurethane RIM System.- The Effect of Annealing on the Thermal Properties of RIM Urethane Elastomers.- Experimental Studies of Phase Separation in Reaction Injection Molded (RIM) Polyurethanes.- Graft Polyol RIM Systems: Thermal Stability and Moisture Absorption.- III. Non-Urethane RIM Systems.- Polyamide RIM Systems.- The Catalysis of the Polycyclotrimerization of Isocyanates by Quaternary Ammonium Carboxylates.- High Modulus Isocyanurate-Urethane RIM Elastomers.- Potential of Crown Ether-Assisted Anionic Polymerization of Styrene and Dienes for Commercial Processes.- IV. RIM Engineering and Technology.- Recent Chemical and Reinforcement Development in the Reinforced RIM Process for Automobile Applications.- Fiber Glass Reinforced Reaction Injection Molding.- Refining of the RRIM Process, Materials and Equipment in the Automotive Industry.- Metering and Mixing of RIM Reactants.- Simulation of Cavity Filling and Curing in RIM.- Computer Analysis of RIM Moldability from the Density Distribution in Molded Products.