Plastics Design Handbook

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

   Pages 1-36

3. Design Influencing Factor

   • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

   Pages 37-130

4. Product Design Feature

   • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

   Pages 131-203

5. Designing Plastic Product

   • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

   Pages 204-295

6. Testing and Meaning of Test Data

   • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

   Pages 296-334

7. Plastic Material Formation and Variation

   • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

   Pages 335-373

8. Material Property

   • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

   Pages 374-434

9. Plastic Processing

   • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

   Pages 435-566

10. Cost Estimating

    • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

    Pages 567-579

11. Summary

    • Dominick V. Rosato, Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato

    Pages 580-592

12. Back Matter

    Pages 593-680

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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.

• design
• elastomer
• environment
• extrusion
• information
• material
• medical devices
• mold
• plastics
• processing
• product design
• steel
• temperature
• testing
• wood

• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA

  Dominick V. Rosato

• Society of Plastics Engineers, USA

  Donald V. Rosato

• University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA

  Marlene G. Rosato

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