Books in the Plastics Design Library series

Explains in plain terms why moldings shrink and warp. This book offers practical understanding to novices, and insights to readers already skilled in the art of injection molding and mold making. It contains the answers to common problems and detailed advice on how to control mold and post-mold shrinkage and warpage.

Service Life Prediction of Polymers and Coatings: Enhanced Methods focuses on the cutting-edge science behind how plastic and polymer materials are modified by the effects of weathering, offering the latest advances in service life prediction methods. The chapters have been developed by experts based on their contributions as part of the 7th Service Life Prediction Meeting. The volume begins with the premise that it is possible to produce and design life predictions, also looking at how these predictions can be used. Subsequent chapters present new developments in service life prediction, examining the most important considerations in SLP design, timescales, and other major issues. The book also considers the current state of the field in terms of both accomplishments and areas that require significant research going forward. This is a highly valuable reference for engineers, designers, technicians, scientists and R&D professionals who are looking to develop materials, components or products for outdoor applications across a range of industries. The book also supports academic researchers, scientists and advanced students with an interest in service life, the effects of weathering, material degradation, failure analysis, or sustainability across the fields of plastics engineering, polymer science and materials science. Presents novel prediction techniques for plastics and polymers exposed to outdoor weatheringProvides a consensus roadmap on the scientific barriers related to a validated, predictive model for the response of polymer and plastics to outdoor exposureEnables the reader to assess and compare different methods and approaches to service life prediction

Explains the fundamentals of lamination and plastics thermoforming technologies along with fresh developments. This book focuses on properties and thermoforming mechanics of plastic films and in particular single and multilayered laminates, including barrier films.

Enables the reader to evaluate the applicability of Glass Bubbles to various applications involving polymers in thermoplastics, elastomers, liquid thermosets and adhesives. This title features practices for plastics and rubber processing with glass bubbles.

Enables engineers and materials scientists to achieve multi-functionality in their own products, using different types of polymer matrices and various nano- and micro-sized fillers and reinforcements, including - but not limited to - carbon nanotubes and graphene.

The US market for rotational molding products was one billion pounds in the year 2000. This book covers advanced aspects of the rotational molding process.

Designed to aid operators, engineers, and managers in extrusion processing in quickly answering practical day-to-day questions, this provides the fundamental principles, for operators and engineers, of polymeric materials extrusion processing in single and twin screw extruders.

Provides a survey of various aspects of adhesives technology from selection and surface preparation to industrial applications and health and environmental factors. This title is suitable for a range of engineers and technicians working in the adhesives industry and a variety of industry sectors that make considerable use of adhesives.

How are engineers, designers, buyers going to decide the type and resin grade and their property data? Which are the valid test methods? This book gives a simple and efficient approach to a highly complex and time consuming task. It steers engineers and designers onto the right path to selecting the appropriate values for each plastic property.