Plastics Design Handbook

This book provides a simplified and practical approach to designing with plastics that funda mentally relates to the load, temperature, time, and environment subjected to a product. It will provide the basic behaviors in what to consider when designing plastic products to meet performance and cost requirements. Important aspects are presented such as understanding the advantages of different shapes and how they influence designs. Information is concise, comprehensive, and practical. Review includes designing with plastics based on material and process behaviors. As de signing with any materials (plastic, steel, aluminum, wood, etc.) it is important to know their behaviors in order to maximize product performance-to-cost efficiency. Examples of many different designed products are reviewed. They range from toys to medical devices to cars to boats to underwater devices to containers to springs to pipes to buildings to aircraft to space craft. The reader's product to be designed can directly or indirectly be related to product design reviews in the book. Important are behaviors associated and interrelated with plastic materials (thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers, reinforced plastics, etc.) and fabricating processes (extrusion, injec tion molding, blow molding, forming, foaming, rotational molding, etc.). They are presented so that the technical or non-technical reader can readily understand the interrelationships.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- Overview.- Generalization Justifiable.- Design Definition.- Design Features That Influence Performance.- Basics in Designing.- Design Approach.- Design Feature.- Computer Use.- Short and Long Term Performance.- Predicting Performance.- A Changing World.- Success by Design.- Responsibility.- Ethic.- Terminology.- 2 Design Influencing Factor.- Material Behavior.- Correlating Rheological Parameter.- Mechanical Load.- Short-Term Load Behavior.- Long-Term Load Behavior.- High Speed Property.- Thermal Expansion and Contraction.- Weathering/Environment.- High Temperature.- Instability Behavior.- Finite Element Analysis.- Safety Factors.- 3 Product Design Feature.- Design Analysis.- Design Concept.- Basic Feature.- Prototype.- Features Influencing Performance.- Design Failure Analysis.- 4 Designing Plastic Product.- Book Shelve.- Pipe.- RP Pipe.- Bearing.- Gear.- Gasket and Seal.- Grommet and Noise.- Electrical/Electronic Product.- Toy and Game.- Transparent and Optical Product.- Packaging.- Building.- Chair.- Automobile.- Aircraft.- Medical Product.- Biological and Microbial Degradation.- Dynamic Load Isolator.- Filter.- Liner.- Paper and Plastic.- Developing Idea.- Joining and Assembling.- Predicting Performance.- Design and Safety.- Risk.- Plastic/Process Interaction.- Law and Regulation.- Designing and Legal Matter.- Design Detractor and Constrain.- Troubleshooting Design Problem/Failure.- 5 Testing and Meaning of Test Data.- Destructive and Nondestructive Testing.- Stress Analysis.- Flaw Detection.- Limitation of Test.- Meaning of Data.- Physical Property.- Mechanical Property.- Thermal Property.- Electrical Property.- Optical Property.- Weathering.- Fire.- Analyzing Testing and Quality Control.- Statistical Process Control and Quality Control.- 6 PlasticMaterial Formation and Variation.- Structure and Morphology.- Compounded/Alloyed Plastic.- Reinforced Plastic.- Elastomer.- Commodity and Engineering Plastic.- Neat Plastic.- Structural Foam.- Plastics with a Memory.- Orientation.- Material Variable.- Recycling.- Plastic Future and Biotechnology.- 7 Material Property.- Mechanical Property.- Electrical Property.- Thermal Property.- Other Behaviour.- Selecting Plastic.- 8 Plastic Processing.- Overview.- Influence on Performance.- Model/Prototype Building.- Processing Behavior.- Processing And Property.- FALLO Approach.- Tooling.- Injection Molding.- Extrusion.- Blow Molding.- Thermoforming.- Foaming.- Reinforced Plastic.- Process.- Calendering.- Compression and Transfer Molding.- Reaction Injection Molding.- Liquid Injection Molding.- Rotational Molding.- Encapsulation.- Casting.- Powder Coating.- Vinyl Dispersion.- Process Control.- Auxiliary Equipment.- Secondary Equipment.- Finishing and Decorating.- Joining And Assembly.- Troubleshooting.- Safety And Processing.- Equipment/Processing Variable.- Selecting Process.- 9 Cost Estimating.- Effective Control.- Technical Cost Modeling.- Mold/Die Cost.- Cost Analysis Method.- Designing Product.- Energy.- Competition.- Quotation.- Market.- 10 Summary.- Overview.- Design Success.- Plastic Industry Size.- Future.- Appendix A. Plastics Design Toolbox.- 1. Plastics Databases, Electronic.- 2. Hard-Copy Data Sources.- 3. Process Simulation Software.- 4. Plastics Design Books.- 5. Design Education.- 6. Trade Publications.- 7. Trade Associations.- 8. Industry Conferences.- 9. Key Related Websites.- 10. Key Corporate Websites.- B. Terminology.- C. Abbreviation.- D. Conversion.- E. Mathematical Symbol and Abbreviation.- References.