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This comprehensive handbook provides a simplified, practical, and innovative approach to understanding the design and manufacture of plastic products. It will expand the reader's understanding of plastics technology by defining and focusing on past, current, and future technical trends. Plastics behavior is presented so as to help readers fabricate products that meet performance standards, low-cost requirements, and profitability targets. Different plastic products are reviewed to gain a better understanding of how behavior affects performance and cost efficiency. Examples include toys, medical devices, cars, boats, underwater devices, containers, springs, pipes, buildings, and aircrafts. Functional behaviors are also explained in terms of thermoplastics, elastomers, reinforced plastics, and other common plastics, along with their many fabrication processes (extrusion, injection molding, blow molding, forming, foaming, reaction injection molding, and rotational molding). This material is presented so that both technical and non-technical readers can understand the interrelationships of materials to processes. The authors examine different plastic products and their related critical factors, from meeting performance requirements in different environments to reducing costs and targeting for zero defects.

Plastics. --- Plastic materials --- Plastic products --- Polymers --- Synthetic products --- Condensation products (Chemistry) --- Elastomers --- Plasticity --- Introduction to Plastics --- Plastics Materials --- Behaviors of Plastics --- Selecting Plastics --- Recycling Plastics --- Plastics Comparisons --- Fabricating Processes --- Plasticators --- Tooling --- Processing Machinery Lines --- Extrusion --- Injection Molding --- Thermoforming --- Foam Processes --- Reinforced Plastics --- Compression Molding and Transfer Molding --- Rotational Molding --- Calendaring --- Reaction Injection Molding --- Other Processes --- Designing Products --- Troubleshooting --- Computer Systems --- Testing/Quality Control/Statistics --- Cost Estimating and Profit Planning --- Markets --- Laws and Regulations

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This book provides a simplified and practical approach to designing with plastics that funda­ mentally relates to the load, temperature, time, and environment subjected to a product. It will provide the basic behaviors in what to consider when designing plastic products to meet performance and cost requirements. Important aspects are presented such as understanding the advantages of different shapes and how they influence designs. Information is concise, comprehensive, and practical. Review includes designing with plastics based on material and process behaviors. As de­ signing with any materials (plastic, steel, aluminum, wood, etc.) it is important to know their behaviors in order to maximize product performance-to-cost efficiency. Examples of many different designed products are reviewed. They range from toys to medical devices to cars to boats to underwater devices to containers to springs to pipes to buildings to aircraft to space­ craft. The reader's product to be designed can directly or indirectly be related to product design reviews in the book. Important are behaviors associated and interrelated with plastic materials (thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers, reinforced plastics, etc.) and fabricating processes (extrusion, injec­ tion molding, blow molding, forming, foaming, rotational molding, etc.). They are presented so that the technical or non-technical reader can readily understand the interrelationships.

Macromolecules --- Manufacturing technologies --- polymers --- elastomer --- thermoplastic --- thermoset --- plastics --- polymeren