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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, very slight shelfwear. 156 pages. Oversize, color-illustrated exhibition catalogue. Spanish/English/Italian texts. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Thermoforming decisions become more defensible when material behavior, heat transfer, forming mechanics, equipment, quality, and economics are treated as one engineering system.Advanced Thermoforming Engineering Handbook is a quantitative reference for readers who need to understand not only how thermoforming works, but how to reason through the calculations behind process and design decisions. It follows the complete technical path from polymer science and sheet production to heating, stretching, forming, cooling, tooling, machinery, automation, quality, safety, sustainability, and investment analysis.Inside, readers can: Relate glass transition, crystallinity, viscoelasticity, rheology, molecular weight, and thermal properties to the forming behavior of thermoplastic sheet.Analyze sheet heating with radiation, convection, thermal diffusion, energy balances, two-sided heating, and multi-zone control.Work through biaxial stretching, draw ratio, wall-thickness distribution, plug assistance, vacuum and pressure mechanics, vent sizing, and cycle-time engineering.Develop tooling concepts using draft, corner radii, venting, cooling channels, mold construction, machine interfaces, and pinch-off details.Evaluate machinery and automation through heater-zone design, clamping and tonnage, vacuum and pressure capacity, throughput, robotics, buffering, reliability, and data connectivity.Build a disciplined quality approach using control charts, capability indices, measurement-system analysis, experimental design, testing, acceptance sampling, calibration, and traceability.Examine sustainability and financial decisions through life-cycle assessment, carbon and energy accounting, circularity, material recovery, unit-cost models, break-even analysis, discounted cash flow, investment return, and total cost of ownership.The handbook contains eighteen chapters supported by worked numerical examples, practice problems with checked answer keys, case studies, appendices, a glossary, a list of symbols, and an index. Cross-references help readers move from a practical question to the governing concept or calculation without requiring a cover-to-cover reading.It is intended for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, practicing engineers, technicians moving into engineering responsibility, and experienced converters seeking a deeper calculation-based treatment. The text assumes an undergraduate foundation in mechanics of materials and heat transfer, while keeping its worked examples and practice problems self-contained.Representative material properties and process values are presented as engineering references rather than universal production settings. For production, safety, certification, or regulatory decisions, readers should verify current controlled standards, supplier data, equipment documentation, production measurements, and applicable professional requirements.Open the handbook to the chapter that matches your immediate engineering question, follow the calculations, and build a more quantitative understanding of thermoforming from material selection through production and investment decisions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…