Polymer Engineering Technology: Guides & Handbooks

Includes 13 major sections containing 161 separate articles ranging across a broad area of useful information about structural composites for engineering applications.

Offers articles describing 40 major engineering plastics families, 29 thermoplastics and 11 thermosets.

Thorough review of the selection, design, properties, and uses of structural adhesives and sealants, including: an overview of adhesives and sealants technology; a description of the major market and application areas; classification and comparison of various adhesives and sealants; surface preparation/considerations for adherents (metals, plastics, composites, and ceramics and glasses); methods used to test and analyze bonded structures; determination of mechanical properties (fatigue, fracture, etc.); physical characteristics (thermal and electrical); and microstructural analysis.

Offers concise information on the properties of polymeric materials, particularly those most relevant to the areas of physical chemistry and chemical physics.

Includes data on all polymeric materials used by the plastics industry and branches of the chemical industry, as well as specialty polymers in the electronics, pharmaceutical, medical and space fields.

Contains a vast array of data for polymers, monomers and other ancillary topics that are required for experimental and theoretical research and applications of polymers.