Plastic Product Material and Process Selection Handbook

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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
 

Contents

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER 2 PLASTIC PROPERTY
40
CHAPTER 3 FABRICATING PRODUCT
130
CHAPTER 4 INJECTION MOLDING
192
CHAPTER 5 EXTRUSION
227
CHAPTER 6 BLOW MOLDING
282
CHAPTER 7 THERMOFORMING
308
CHAPTER 8 FOAMING
333
CHAPTER 12 REACTION INJECTION MOLDING
406
CHAPTER 13 ROTATIONAL MOLDING
428
CHAPTER 14 COMPRESSION MOLDING
439
CHAPTER 15 REINFORCED PLASTICS
455
CHAPTER 16 OTHER PROCESS
497
CHAPTER 17 MOLD AND DIE TOOLING
512
CHAPTER 18 AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT
550
CHAPTER 19 SUMMARY
570

CHAPTER 9 CALENDERING
369
CHAPTER 10 COATING
382
CHAPTER 11 CASTING
394

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