Brydson's plastics materials /
Brydson's Plastics Materials, Eighth Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the commercially available plastics materials that bridge the gap between theory and practice. The book enables scientists to understand the commercial implications of their work and provides engineers with essen...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Eighth edition. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Brydson's Plastics Materials; Dedication; Brydson's Plastics Materials; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; Preface to the Eighth Edition; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for Plastics; STANDARDS FOR PLASTICS MATERIALS; STANDARDS FOR THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS; ISO STANDARDS FOR VARIOUS PLASTICS ADDITIVES; REFERENCES; Standard Test Methods; REFERENCES; 1
- Plastics Materials: Introduction and Historical Development; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 THE FIRST PLASTICS; 1.3 PRE-1900; 1.4 1900-1930; 1.4.1 Casein; 1.4.2 Formaldehyde Resins; 1.4.3 Cellulose Acetate; 1.5 1930-1940; 1.6 1940-1950.
- 1.7 1950-19601.8 1960-2000; 1.9 RAW MATERIALS FOR PLASTICS; 1.10 PLASTICS NOW; 1.10.1 Health and Safety and the Environment; 1.10.2 Sustainability; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 2
- The Chemical Nature of Plastics Polymerization; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 LINEAR AND CROSS-LINKED MOLECULES; 2.3 COPOLYMERS AND BLENDS; 2.3.1 Random Copolymers; 2.3.2 Block Copolymers; 2.3.3 Alternating Copolymers; 2.3.4 Graft Copolymers; 2.3.5 Other Methods of Combining Polymers; 2.4 MOLAR MASS AND MOLAR MASS DISTRIBUTION; 2.4.1 General Information; 2.4.2 Measurement of Molar Mass and Molar Mass Distribution.
- 2.5 THE CHEMISTRY OF CHAIN REACTION POLYMERIZATION2.5.1 Free-Radical Polymerization; 2.5.2 Basic Kinetics of Free-Radical Addition Polymerization; 2.5.3 Controlled Radical Polymerization; 2.5.4 Ionic Polymerization; 2.5.5 Ziegler-Natta and Metallocene Polymerization; 2.6 STEP REACTION POLYMERIZATION; REFERENCES; 3
- States of Aggregation in Polymers; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 AMORPHOUS POLYMERS; 3.2.1 Physical States in Amorphous Polymers; 3.2.2 The Glass Transition Temperature; 3.2.3 Sub-Tg Transitions; 3.2.4 Physical Aging (Struik, 1978); 3.2.5 Orientation in Amorphous Polymers.
- 3.3 CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 Crystallinity in Polymers; 3.3.2.1 Single Crystals; 3.3.2.2 Reexamination of Crystalline Structure in Bulk Polymers (Bassett, 1981); 3.3.3 Physical States in Crystalline Polymers; 3.3.4 Temperature Dependence of Crystallization Rate; 3.3.5 Orientation in Crystalline Polymers; 3.3.6 Liquid Crystal Polymers; 3.4 CROSS-LINKED STRUCTURES; 3.5 IMPACT MODIFICATION OF PLASTICS; 3.5.1 Copolymers; 3.5.2 Plasticizers; 3.5.3 Polymer Blends; 3.5.4 Hard Fillers, Pigments, and Foams; 3.5.5 Core-Shell Elastomer Impact Modifier Particles; 3.6 SUMMARY.
