I Title TP1120 C74 668.4 - dc21įor information on all Butterworth-Heinemann publications visit our website at Typeset by Laser Words, Chennai, India Printed by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Title 668.4 I3764 1 Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Crawford, R.J. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers.īritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Crawford, R.J. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England WIT 4LP.
Crawford to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright. Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041 First published 1981 Second edition 1987 Reprinted with corrections 1990. OXFORD AMSTERDAM BOSTON LONDON NEW YORK PARIS SAN DlEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYOīutterworth-Heinemann An imprint of Elsevier Science Linacre House. Crawford, BSc, PhD, DSc, FEng, FIMechE, FIM Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering The Queen’s University of Belfast All techniques developed are illustrated by numerous worked examples, and problems are given at the end of each chapter - the solutions to which form one of the appendices. Later chapters lead the reader into more advanced aspects of mechanical design and analysis of polymer melt flow. Early chapters give an introduction to the types of plastics which are currently available and describe how a designer goes about the selection of a plastic for a particular application.
In this third edition over half the book has been re-written and the remainder has been updated and re-organised. It assumes no prior knowledge of plastics, and emphasises the practical aspects of the subject. The aim is to give engineers and technologists a sound understanding of basic principles without the introduction of unduly complex levels of mathematics or chemistry and thereby set plastics in their proper context as engineering materials.This textbook pioneered the approach whereby both properties and processing of reinforced and unreinforced plastics are covered in a single volume. This book presents in a single volume the basic essentials of the properties and processing behaviour of plastics and composites.