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Plastics Product Design Engineering Handbook

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  • © 1984

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Authors:
  1. Sidney Levy

    1. La Verne, USA

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  2. J. Harry DuBois

    1. Morris Plains, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Polymer Structure and Physical Properties

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 1-26

  3. Stress-Strain Behavior of Plastics Materials

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 27-42

  4. Effects of Fillers on Properties and Performance

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 43-58

  5. Stress Analysis for Plastics

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 59-70

  6. Structural Design of Beams, Plates and Other Structural Members

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 71-91

  7. Dynamic Load Response of Plastics Members and Effects of Cyclical Loading

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 92-103

  8. Other Forms of Stress Applied to Plastics Parts

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 104-125

  9. Design for Stiffness

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 126-147

  10. Processing Limitations on Plastics Product Design

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 148-191

  11. CAD/CAM and Plastics Product Design

    • Greg P. Terek
    Pages 192-217

  12. Material and Process Interaction and their Effects on the Performance of Plastics Parts and the Resulting Design Limitations

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 218-235

  13. Performance in Service and Environmental Exposure

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 236-250

  14. Design Procedure for Plastics Parts: Function, Material, Geometry, Test

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 251-258

  15. Design of Plastics Structural Parts for Static Loads

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 259-280

  16. Design of Dynamically Loaded Plastics Parts and Evaluation Procedures

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 281-301

  17. The Design of Plastics Parts for Electrical Applications

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 302-324

  18. Design of Plastics Parts for Optical Applications

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 325-343

  19. Other Design Applications for Plastics

    • Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois
    Pages 344-355

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 356-360
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About this book

Plastics have become increasingly important in the products used in our society, ranging from housing to packaging, transportation, business machines and especially in medicine and health products. Designing plastic parts for this wide range of uses has become a major activity for designers, architects, engineers, and others who are concerned with product development. Because plastics are unique materials with a broad range of proper­ ties they are adaptable to a variety of uses. The uniqueness of plastics stems from their physical characteristics which are as different from metals, glasses, and ceramics as these materials are different from each other. One major concern is the design of structures to take loads. Metals as well as the other materials are assumed to respond elastically and to recover completely their original shape after the load is removed. Based on this simple fact, extensive litera­ ture on applied mechanics of materials has been developed to enable designers to predict accurately the performance of structures under load. Many engineers depend on such texts as Timoshenko's Strength of Materials as a guide to the performance of structures. Using this as a guide, generations of engineers have designed economical and safe structural parts. Unfortunately, these design principles must be modified when designing with plastics since they do not respond elastically to stress and undergo permanent deformation with sus­ tained loading.

Authors and Affiliations

  • La Verne, USA

    Sidney Levy

  • Morris Plains, USA

    J. Harry DuBois

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Plastics Product Design Engineering Handbook

  • Authors: Sidney Levy, J. Harry DuBois

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2531-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Chapman and Hall 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9583-9Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2531-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 360

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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