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Description Author: Liesl K. Massey ISBN 978-0-8155-1505-0 Published: 2005 412 pages · 8.5" x 11" Hardback Summary This extensively updated second edition was created for medical device, medical packaging, and food packaging design engineers, material product technical support, and research/development personnel. This comprehensive databook contains important characteristics and properties data on the effects of sterilization methods on...
Description Author: Laurence W. McKeen, Editor ISBN 978-0-8155-1568-5 Published: 20072nd Edition, 824 pages, hardcover Summary This book is an update to the first edition compiled and published in 1990 by William Woishnis. A lot has changed in the field since 1990 and a lot has not changed. There are new plastic materials. There has been a huge...
Description Author: M.C. Hough and R. Dolbey ISBN 978-1-85957-058-6Published: 1995 Pages 414 Summary The properties and processability of plastics materials are subject to a number of influences. Factors such as a chemical constitution, molecular weight and degree of crystallinity are clearly of primary importance, but they do not tell the whole story. Commercial grades of plastics...
Description Author: M.C. Hough and R. Dolbey ISBN 978-1-85957-092-0 Published: 1998Pages 500 Summary Each material has been assigned a comparative ranking value for each of the properties. These range from Excellent to Very Poor and Not Applicable. 62 properties are covered, in 4 categories: General and electrical; including shrinkage, warpage, hydrolytic stability, UV weathering and material...
Description Author: K. Pielichowski and J. Njuguna ISBN 978-1-85957-498-0 Published: 2005 306 pages Summary Thermal degradation of polymeric materials is an important issue from both the academic and the industrial viewpoints. Understanding the thermal degradation of polymers is of paramount importance for developing a rational technology of polymer processing and higher-temperature applications. Controlling degradation requires an understanding...
Description Author: T. R. Crompton ISBN 9781847356611 pages 242, Hardcover Summary This book reviews the various thermal methods used for the characterisation of polymer properties and composition. All these methods study the properties of polymers as they change with temperature.The methods discussed in this book are: differential photocalorimetry, differential scanning calorimetry, dielectric thermal analysis, differential thermal...
Description Author: T. R. Crompton ISBN 978-1-84735-472-3 Available in July 2010 Format: Hard-backed Summary The oxidative and thermal degradation of polymers has very important implications on their suitability for particular end-user applications. Particularly in relation to their physical properties and the lifetime over which the manufactured article retains these properties, after which they become unsuitable...
Description Author: S Ashter ISBN 9781455731725 Plastic Films Technologies, Testing, and ApplicationsPublished: 2013 Pages: 352 Summary Key Features• First comprehensive source of information and hands-on guide for the thermoforming of multilayered laminates• Covers applications across such sectors as automotive, packaging, home goods, and construction• Introduces new testing methods leveraging protocols used for metalsDescriptionThermoforming of Single...
Description Author: Carl L. Yaws ISBN 9780815515968 Published: 2008826 pages Summary The most comprehensive collection of data on thermo-physical properties of chemicals and hydrocarbons ever compiled.AUDIENCEChemical Engineers; Process Engineers; Chemists; Chemical Engineering Students; Engineers working in process design, plant operations, R&D, and industrial health and safety.DESCRIPTIONCarl Yaws, a leading authority on chemical compounds in the chemical...
Description Author: J.A. Brydson ISBN 978-1-85957-044-9 Published: 1995 110 pages, softbound Summary The nature and general properties of TPEs are explained and classes of materials considered. Developments in specific market sectors are outlined. The groups of materials considered include styrenics, polyether-esters, polyamides, polyurethanes, and polyolefins. The review is supported by extensive references and abstracts section containing over...
Description Author: Rapra Technology and BRMA ISBN 978-1-85957-174-3 Published: 1999 Pages 380, Spiral-bound Summary ‘Reliable and authoritative information on the risks associated with the handling and use of chemicals is a prerequisite for their proper control and for preventing risks to health and safety…..To have this key information assembled in a readily accessible and user-friendly form is...
Description Author: Edited by M. McParland and N. Bates, National Poisons Information Service (London Center) ISBN 978-1-85957-296-2Published: 2002 Pages 400 Summary Health and safety have become priority issues in industries across the world. Cases of neglect have cost companies dearly. This book reviews the evidence on the effects of exposure to common industrial solvents. Solvents have...
Description Author: Conference ISBN 978-1-85957-276-4 Brussels, Belgium, 18th-19th June 2001pages 128 Summary This international two-day conference is now firmly established as Europe’s premier meeting place for the thermoplastic elastomers sector. The last two events brought together more than 200 key players involved in all stages of the TPE supply chain. The TPE 2001 conference programme was...
Description Author: Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-85957-317-4 Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium, 24th- 25th June 2002pages 160 Summary This international two-day conference is now firmly established as Europe's premier meeting place for the thermoplastics elastomers sector. The last three events which were held in London, Amsterdam and Brussels each brought together more than 200 key players involved...
Description Author: Rapra Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-85957-368-6 Published: 2003188 pages, 21 papers pages Summary The use of thermoplastic elastomers is developing rapidly into a major success story, both as a replacement for vulcanised rubber and also for totally new applications. Several important factors are driving developments forward such as legislation on recycling materials in cars and...
Description Author: Vannessa Goodship ISBN 978-1-85957-470-6 138 pages Summary Injection moulding is one of the most commonly used processing technologies for plastics materials. Proper machine set up, part and mould design, and material selection can lead to high-quality production. This review outlines common factors to check when preparing for injection mould components so that costly mistakes...
Description Author: Xiaobin Zhao and James M. Courtney ISBN 978-1-84735-208-8 Published: 2009 Pages: 112Hardcover Summary Poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC) is the most versatile of all the commodity polymers. It can satisfy a wide range of product function, safety, performance, and cost criteria.Update on Medical Plasticised PVC considers the history of plasticised PVC in medical applications and the...
Description Author: Minna Hakkarainen and Anna-Finne Wistrand ISBN 9781847355829 Published: 2011 Summary Polylactides are aliphatic polyesters derived from lactic acid, and various derivatives thereof, and are one of the most promising of polymers based on starting materials available from renewable resources. Materials based on these polymers are at the cutting edge of progress in sustainable materials...
Description Author: Fang Liu ISBN 9781847355379Publish: 2011 Summary The preferred route for drug delivery remains the oral route, but oral drug delivery has now developed beyond traditional dosage forms such as tablets and capsules. Nowadays it is possible to use polymers to allow drugs to be targeted to specific sites in the gastrointestinal tract, and...
Description Author: Natamai Subramanian Muralisrinivasan ISBN 9781847355508 Pages:164 Summary In recent years, PVC has penetrated markets once dominated by metals, it continues to grow in popularity with unique and dependable properties that can be used efficiently and produced economically. Because of the flexible to rigid formulations, the field of PVC is continually marked with technical innovations....