Polymer Engineering Product (EBT 431/3)

Handbook of Plastics, Elastomers, and Composite4th Edition, places state-of-the-art information on plastics, elastomers, and composites at your fingertips. The revised and updated edition presents all of the fundamental information required to understand the large number of materials and material forms, and provides the necessary data and guidelines for optimal use of these materials and forms in the broad range of industrial products, ensuring the highest performance from materials.Thoroughly revised, this new edition features the latest advance in properties of plastics, elastomers, and composites while providing practical examples throughout. Thermosets, plastics in coatings and finishes, thermoplastics and plastics in packaging are covered.

This book is for people involved in working with plastic material and plastic fabricating processes. The information and data in this book are provided as a comparative guide to help in understanding the performance of plastics and in making the decisions that must be made when developing a logical approach to fabricating plastic products to meet performance requirements at the lowest costs. It is formatted to allow for easy reader access and this care has been translated into the individual chapter constructions and index. This book makes very clear the behaviour of the 35,000 different plastics with the different behaviours of the hundreds of processes. Products reviewed range from toys to medical devices, to cars, to boats, to underwater devices, containers, springs, pipes, aircraft and spacecraft. The reader's product to be designed and/or fabricated can be directly or indirectly related to plastic materials, fabricating processes and/or product design reviews in this book. *Essential for people involved in working with plastic material and plastic fabricating processes *Will help readers understand the performance of plastics *Helps readers to make decisions which meet performance requirements and to keep costs low

"This indispensable, all inclusive reference guide to plastic part design is compiled with the product designer in mind, who is looking for more detailed information on plastic resins, the rules and geometries underlying their use in product, design, and the advantages and limitations of their use in industrial applications. The designer will also find valuable advice on resin and tool selection and processing parameters that will allow fast and successful product development and manufacture."--BOOK JACKET.

Today engineers, designers, buyers and all those who have to work with plastics face a dilemma. There has been a proliferation of test methods by which plastic properties are measured. The property data measured by these test methods are not identical and sometimes have large differences. How are engineers, designers, buyers going to decide the type and resin grade and their property data? Which are the valid test methods? The right plastic property data are the difference between success and failure of a design, thus making the property selection process critical. For the first time this book provides a simple and efficient approach to a highly complex and time consuming task. There are over 26,000 different grades of polymers and millions of parts and applications, further adding to the difficulty of the selection process. Selection of Polymeric Materials steers engineers and designers onto the right path to selecting the appropriate values for each plastic property. A large amount of property information has been provided to teach and assist the plastic part designer and others in selecting the right resin and properties for an application. Various standards including ASTM, ISO, UL, and British Specifications have been discussed to help the readers in making sound decisions. - A simple and efficient approach to a highly complex and time consuming task. - Allows engineers to select from various standards including ASTM, ISO, UL, and British Specification. - Presents information on properties such as tensile strength, melt temperature, continuous service temperature, moisture exposure, specific gravity and flammability ratings. - Tried and true values narrow myriad choices down quickly for readers.

Given the infinite number of applications of polymeric materials in everyday life, especially those where a failure in service may lead to economic loss, injury or death, the ability to use forensic engineering to determine the cause of the failure is essential. This book reviews the latest forensic engineering techniques used in the investigation of failed polymer materials. It includes a series of case studies that illustrate different types of failures and the forensic engineering techniques used to investigate the failures. The book begins with an introduction to forensic polymer engineering and an overview of the examination and analysis of failed polymer components. Further chapters contain detailed case studies of failure and forensic investigation of polymeric medical devices, polymer storage tanks, small polymeric containers, polymer pipes and fittings, polymeric seals, polymeric tools and ladders, polymer components in transport applications, and polymer consumer products. The final chapter examines product failure causes, including poor manufacturing methods, poor design, poor choice of materials, and failures due to a lack of consideration for environmental factors.

Here's the first non-technical introduction to the exciting field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). It describes in detail the materials used in producing MEMS -- including silicon, polymers and glass and quartz substrates -- as well as MEMS design for nozzles, sensors, valves and other applications. It examines the manufacture of commercial MEMS using techniques such as oxidation, lithography, chemical vapor deposition and silicon fusion bonding and applications in a wide range of industries including data storage, telecommunications, consumer, automotive, medical and defense.

Discover new and emerging applications of polymer nanofibers alongside the basic underlying science and technology. With discussions exploring such practical applications as filters, fabrics, sensors, catalysts, scaffolding, drug delivery, and wound dressings, the book provides polymer scientists and engineers with a comprehensive, practical "how-to" reference. Moreover, the author offers an expert assessment of polymer nanofibers′ near-term potential for commercialization. Among the highlights of coverage is the book′s presentation of the science and technology of electrospinning, including practical information on how to electrospin different polymer systems.