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Book SynopsisUpdated throughout to reflect advances over the last decade, the Fifth Edition continues the handbook's tradition of authoritative coverage of fundamentals, production methods, properties, and applications of plastics and polymer-based materials. It covers tooling for plastics fabrication processes, thermoplastics, thermosetting plastics, foamed plastics, reinforced plastics, plastisols, and new developments in mold design. It also discusses rubber compounding and processing technologies. More recent developments in polymer fabrication and processing, including electrospinning, electrografted coating, polymer-metal hybrid joining, flex printing, and rapid prototyping/ 3D printing, are also presented. The handbook highlights advanced materials including natural and synthetic gfnanosize polymers, their unusual properties, and innovative applications, as well as polymer-carbon nanocomposites, graphene-based polymer nanocomposites, smart healable polymer composites, smart polymer coatin
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"The comprehensive coverage of polymer engineering topics makes this text an important ‘go-to’ source, especially for specialty topics. The text is well organized with extensive references that provide a ready entre into details associated with all topics."
— Kenneth J. Wynne, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
"The Plastics Technology Handbook represents the ‘Polymer Bible’ where you can find the primary information about everything related to polymers. The coverage of the area is unique! If you have any question about polymers — please open first this book and thereafter only you can look for a more detailed information in the specific literature. It is hardly possible to formulate a question regarding polymers and not to find its answer in this remarkable Handbook."
— Stoyko Fakirov, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Table of ContentsCharacteristics of Polymers and Polymerization Processes. Fabrication Processes. Plastic Properties and Testing. Industrial Polymers. Polymers in Special Uses. Recycling and Disposal of Waste Plastics. Trends in Polymer Applications. A1: Trade Names for Some Industrial Polymers Appendix. A2: Commonly Used Abbreviations for Industrial Polymers. A3 Formulations of Flame-Retarded Selected Thermoplastics. A4: Formulations of Selected Rubber Compounds. A5: Formulations of Selected PVC Compounds. A6: Formulations of Polyurethane Foams. A7: Conversion of Units. A8: Typical Properties of Polymers Used for Molding and Extrusion. A9: Typical Properties of Cross-Linked Rubber Compounds. A10: Typical Properties of Representative Textile Fibers.
