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. The content is presented
so that both technical and nontechnical readers can understand the
interrelationships of materials to processes. Different plastic products are
examined and their related critical factors are shown, from meeting performance
requirements in different environments, to reducing costs and targeting for zero
defects. Examples used include small to large, and simple to complex shapes.
Information is included on static properties (tensile, flexural), dynamic
properties (creep, fatigue, impact)