Practical Testing and Evaluation of Plastics

Achim Frick, Claudia Stern, Vibunanthan Muralidharan

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783527334117
• eBook ISBN: 9783527667338
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Engineering with polymers is a growing technical field which requires special knowledge. Filling a need, this ready reference brings together the hard-to-get and recently acquired knowledge usually only found scattered in the original literature. At the beginning, the reference introduces plastics as a class of technical materials, gives an overview of their properties, presents plastics processing and its possible influence on the achievable quality of plastic parts. Afterwards, plastics testing is presented as a separate, practical-scientific field of work. The possibilities and fields of application of plastics testing will be discussed. This is followed by a comprehensive treatment of the individual, relevant test areas for the characterization and qualification of plastics and plastic molded parts made from them, with descriptions of the corresponding, practical test methods. A comprehensive index provides easy access to relevant information for successful engineering with plastics and suitable methods for material characterization and for quality assurance and damage analysis of parts.

Written by experienced academics and industrial researchers and developers who know the problems of plastics engineers in their daily work - and the solutions - inside out, this book offers first-hand practical knowledge and intensive discussion. The book is aimed at industry, scientists and students involved in plastics and plastic engineering and aims to help them gain the necessary understanding of polymer materials and knowledge of practical testing and evaluation of plastics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• 1 Introduction to Plastics
• 2 Polymer Testing
• 3 Identification of Polymers
• 4 Rheological Testing
• 5 Mechanical Testing
• 6 Tribological Testing
• 7 Thermal Testing
• 8 Chemical Testing
• 9 Physical Testing
• 10 Geometrical Inspection
• 11 Optical Testing Methods
• Bibliography
• Index
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