Modern Plastics Handbook - Hardcover

Harper, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070267146 ISBN 13: 9780070267145

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

State-of-the-art guide to plastic product design, manufacture and application. Edited by Charles A. Harper and sponsored by Modern Plastics, the industry's most prestigious trade magazine, Modern Plastics Handbook packs a wealth of up-to-date knowledge about plastics processes, forms and formulations, design, equipment, testing and recycling. This A-to-Z guide keeps you on top of: *Properties and performance of thermoplastics, polymer blends...thermosets, reinforced plastics and composites...natural and synthetic elastomers *Processes from extrusion, injection and blow molding to thermoforming, foam processing, hand lay-up and filament winding, and many, many more *Fabricating...post-production finishing and bonding...coatings and finishes, subjects difficult to find treated elsewhere in print *More! This comprehensive and thorough handbook,sponsored by Modern Plastics,the leading industry magazine,abounds with information,data and guidelines for all of those with interests in any area of plastics technology. Based on its broad and comprehensive coverage,comments have been made that this handbook may well become "the bible of the plastics industry".

About this title

Synopsis:

This comprehensive and thorough handbook, sponsored by "Modern Plastics",the leading industry magazine, abounds with information, data and guidelines for all of those with interests in any area of plastics technology. Based on its broad and comprehensive coverage, comments have been made that this handbook may well become "the bible of the plastics industry". It is a state-of-the-art guide to plastic product design, manufacture and application. Edited by Charles A. Harper and sponsored by "Modern Plastics", the industry's most prestigious trade magazine, "Modern Plastics Handbook" packs a wealth of up-to-date knowledge about plastics processes, forms and formulations, design, equipment, testing and recycling. This A-to-Z guide keeps you on top of: properties and performance of thermoplastics, polymer blends, thermosets, reinforced plastics and composites, natural and synthetic elastomers; processes from extrusion, injection and blow molding to thermoforming, foam processing, hand lay-up and filament winding, and many, many more.

Packed with essential information for those in-or interested in the industry, the "Modern Plastics Handbook" is vital to anyone who make decisions about plastics.

From the Back Cover:

If you need hands-on information about plastics, you've come to the right source. Teaming up with the highly respected Modern Plastics magazine, expert Charles A. Harper delivers the most comprehensive single-source reference on plastics technology ever published.

Practical and highly insightful, the Modern Plastics Handbook gives you coverage of materials, product design, and manufacturing processes that you'll find nowhere else. An incisive examination of every aspect of plastics technology, this sourcebook can help you:

1) Compare and select types, processes, and uses.
2) Master chemistry and manufacturing techniques used in all segments of the industry.
3) Discover new design methods and details.
4) Find new testing and quality control guidance.
5) Cut cost with the latest recycling technology.
6) Apply new coating and finishing techniques.
7) Take plastics technology one step beyond.

Packed with essential information for those in -or interested in-the industry, the Modern Plastics Handbook is vital to anyone who makes decisions about plastics.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0070267146
• ISBN 13: 9780070267145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1298