Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
(OP)
Hello.
I am interested in buying a book for choosing a plastic.
And I am also interested in a book for testing the final plastic product and I have good contact with my former school so I can use their equipment.
Thanks
I am interested in buying a book for choosing a plastic.
And I am also interested in a book for testing the final plastic product and I have good contact with my former school so I can use their equipment.
Thanks





RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
Plastics Materials 7th edition by John Brydson
Butterworth Heinemann
ISBN 0-7506-4132-0
There's a lot of great information on plastics that you won't find elsewhere. You'll find it at Amazon etc.
The best places for free information on polymer properties to select a grade are:
www.matweb.com
www.omnexus.com
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
If you can find an burnt out old has been like me, they might let you peruse their data collected in the 60's and 70's which was published by the technical departments before the marketing gurus took control of publications and withdrew data and substituted pretty pictures.
Bayer, LNP, DSM, ICI, DuPont, Elf Atochem, BASF, Hoechst and GE are a few who put out really good data. Of course it was aimed at promoting the use of their materials, so it emphasises good properties and downplays bad properties to varying degrees, depending on the ethics of the company.
Regards
eng-tips, by professional engineers for professional engineers
Please see FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips Fora.
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
I can also recommend Brydson - he was head of department at London Polytechnic when my wife did her polymer engineering there some years ago. Apparently a better writer than tutor...nevertheless, the definitive book.
One of the other tutors was a guy called John Goff - he has turned into a processing guru and has written some good stuff on the processing side - useful to a designer to prevent specifying a material with, eg. a narrow processing window or tricky drying requirements when something easier to process will do.
Here is a rough and ready web-based material selector:
http://www.distrupol.com/
Cheers
Harry
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
I checked that link you posted and it's excellent. Certainly worth a pink star. One coming your way.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
Just went on my list of favourites and all Acrobat files will be printed.
Regards
eng-tips, by professional engineers for professional engineers
Please see FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips Fora.
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
Demon/Pat, cheers for he stars but I did post this link some time ago (I forget the thread though!)
Probably the easiest way to select materials is to get local representative(s) to come and visit - discuss the product and they will contact their material suppliers' white coat brigade and do all the calcs etc for you!! (Especially if they think their material is going into a box on the drawing!!) I have found that "engineering" material suppliers the best - I guess because their profit margins are better!!
A study by an independent UK research organisation some years ago indicated that over 90% of plastic mouldings are over specified. Some of the "nicest" mouldings I have seen over the past years are from the automotive sector - clever use of coring/ribbing, material choice, etc, etc.
Pat, correct about old stuff - used to have an excellent design guide from Hoescht - lent it to a designer and never saw it again! (Can't remember who either!).
Cheers
Harry
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
My role for many years was the local white coat guy in Aus, liaising with various head office white coat guys.
In Aus due to small domestic market and isolation, we tend to wear a lot of different coats.
Regards
eng-tips, by professional engineers for professional engineers
Please see FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips Fora.
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
Plastics Materials 7th edition by John Brydson
Butterworth Heinemann
ISBN 0-7506-4132-0
Regards
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
Book from:
ht
Cheers
Harry
RE: Recommend a good book for choosing and testing plastic.
Regards