Overview

This book is derived from a recent project sponsored by the Polymer Engineering Directorate of the SERC and carried out at the University of Lancaster under the joint auspices of the Departments of Chemistry and Engineering. The project set out to provide a novel type of teaching material for introducing polymers and their uses to students, especially of engineering. Case studies of real examples of polymers at work are used, so the student or teacher can start with a successful and well-designed product and work backwards to its origins in the market, in design and material selection and in the manufacturing process. The philosophy is that such an approach captures interest right at the start by means of a real example and then retains it because of the relevance of the technical explanation. This after all is what most of us do habitually; we turn to examples to make our point. The hope is that subject matter with a somewhat notorious reputation among engineers, such as aspects of polymer chemistry and the non-linear behaviour of polymers under mechanical loading will be fairly painlessly absorbed through the context of the examples. Each study becomes a separate chapter in the book. The original studies, and hence the present chapters, vary in length because different topics demanded different approaches. No attempt has been made to alter this, or to adopt a standardized format because to have done so would have interfered with the vitality of the original work.

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Author:   D. Morton-Jones
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.557kg
ISBN:  

9789401083201

ISBN 10:   9401083207
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   08 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1 PST 1: Injection Moulding and its Materials.- 2 Optimizing Injection Moulding Conditions.- 3 Some Examples of Polymer Selection.- 4 Plastics Gears.- 5 Acetal Clips for Roof Tiles.- 6 Acetal Spring for Selector Switch.- 7 PST 2: Foam Cored Mouldings.- 8 Structural Foam Trolley Base.- 9 Washing Machine Tank in Glass-coupled Polypropylene Structural Foam.- 10 Sandwich Moulded TV Screen Frame.- 11 PST 3: Polyurethanes.- 12 Reinforced Reaction Injection Moulding (RRIM).- 13 Polyurethane Shoe Soles.- 14 Printed Gaskets in Hydraulic Control Equipment.- 15 PST 4: Glass-reinforced Plastics (GRP).- 16 GRP-Clad Lorry Cab.- 17 High Speed Train Cab.- 18 DMC Vehicle Headlamps.- 19 ‘Fiberlam’ Aircraft Flooring.- 20 PST 5: Rubbers.- 21 Rubber-Steel Conveyor Belt.- 22 The Blow Moulding Process.- 23 The Acitainer Blow Moulded Acid Container.- 24 Chemical Effluent Pipe in HDPE.- 25 Failure of a Polypropylene Vessel.- 26 Heat Shrinkable Terminations for Power Cables.

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