Characterization and failure analysis of plastics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ASM International, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

ASM International.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plastics--Fracture.

Plastics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 p.)

Place of Publication:

Materials Park, OH : ASM International, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a collection of ASM Handbook articles on how engineering plastics are characterized in terms of properties and performance. It approaches the subject of characterization from a general standpoint of engineering design, materials selection, and failure analysis. The first section int

Contents:

""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Engineering Plastics: An Introduction""; ""Effects of Composition, Processing, and Structure on Properties of Engineering Plastics""; ""Materials Selection and Design of Engineering Plastics""; ""General Design Guidelines""; ""Design with Plastics""; ""Design and Selection of Plastics Processing Methods""; ""Physical, Chemical, and Thermal Analysis of Plastics""; ""Physical, Chemical, and Thermal Analysis of Thermoset Resins""; ""Physical, Chemical, and Thermal Analysis of Thermoplastic Resins""; ""Thermal Analysis and Thermal Properties""

""Environmental and Chemical Effects""""Characterization of Weathering and Radiation Susceptibility""; ""Flammability Testing""; ""Electrical Testing and Characterization""; ""Optical Testing and Characterization""; ""Mechanical Behavior and Wear""; ""Mechanical Testing and Properties of Plastics: An Introduction""; ""Creep, Stress Relaxation, and Yielding""; ""Crazing and Fracture""; ""Fracture Resistance Testing""; ""Impact Loading and Testing""; ""Fatigue Testing and Behavior""; ""Fatigue Failure Mechanisms""; ""Friction and Wear Testing""; ""Wear Failures of Plastics""

""Wear Failures of Reinforced Polymers""""Environmental Effects""; ""Thermal Stresses and Physical Aging""; ""Environmental Stress Crazing""; ""Moisture-Related Failure""; ""Organic Chemical Related Failure""; ""Photolytic Degradation""; ""Microbial Degradation""; ""Failure Analysis of Plastics""; ""Analysis of Structure""; ""Characterization of Plastics in Failure Analysis""; ""Surface Analysis""; ""Fracture and Fractography""; ""Fractography of Composites""; ""Reference Information""; ""Abbreviations and Symbols""; ""Index""

Notes:

Collection of articles from ASM International handbooks.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781523163571

1523163577

9781627082815

1627082816

9781615030736

1615030735