Advanced Thermoplastic Composites: Characterization and Processing - Hardcover

9780195209754: Advanced Thermoplastic Composites: Characterization and Processing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195209753 ISBN 13: 9780195209754

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 1993

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Here is the book the thermoplastics industry has been waiting for -- a comprehensive, practical guide to high temperature resistant thermoplastic polymers. These composites offer the professional clear advantages in plastics design due to superior properties like stiffness, strength, and weldability. This up-to-date book details those advantages in a clear and accessible format that is ideally suited to designers, engineers, and materials scientists. Here are just a few of the many exciting features this book has to offer: lucid, in-depth discussions of the molecular characterization, processing behavior, and long-term properties of advanced thermoplastic composites; examples of how these polymers have great potential for the machine, automotive, aeronautics, marine, and space industries, and for precision tools and instruments; theoretical discussions to supplement the practical descriptions, thereby allowing readers an overall understanding of the wide ranging applications possible for these infinitely useful composites; a fascinating history of the intense research activity that led to the development of advanced thermoplastics, with particular attention paid to pioneering work that originated in the Louvain-La-Neuve, Lausanne, and ICI Wilton laboratories.Advanced Thermoplastics Composites will be of significant interest to anyone engaged in the design and fabrication of polymer products. Researchers in polymer and materials science will find the book an indispensable guide to the structure and deformation of these exciting polymers of the future.

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This text represents the results of the research activity currently devoted to the field of advanced thermoplastics in three major laboratories: Louvain-la-Neuve, Lausanne and ICI Wilton. It addresses a number of the shortcomings in our understanding of these materials and their applications. The studies of methods of molecular analysis as applied to the relatively stiff molecules typical of advanced thermoplastics, aim to help resolve the difficulties associated with molecular weight determination. Their physical structure in the unfilled state, and its modification through thermal treatment, and the presence of fillers and reinforcing fibres, has been identified and correlated with the mechanical behaviour over a wide range of strain rates, covering a whole variety of loading conditions, from impact through to long term tests. The highly characteristic molecular structures of advanced thermoplastics also necessitate special guidelines for their processing and component design, and potential advantages and pitfalls are discussed.

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