Plastic Injection Molding: Mold Design and Construction Fundamentals

The final of three volumes providing students and practitioners in thermoplastics with either new information or a polish-up of knowledge that has gotten dusty over the years. Explains the role of the mold in the injection molding process, how it should be designed and built, mold components and materials, some of the more popular mold designs, methods and equipment, and design criteria for both the mold and the product. The first two volumes appeared in 1996 and 1997, are available for $76 each, and cover respectively, fundamentals of the manufacturing process, and material selection and product design. The whole set is available for $220; it has no consolidated ISBN. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.