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By
John Moalli, Exponent, USA
Included in series
Plastics Design Library,
Description
This book contains analysis of reasons that cause products to fail. General methods of product failure evaluation give powerful tools
in product improvement. Such methods, discussed in the book, include practical risk analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, preliminary
hazard analysis, progressive failure analysis, fault tree analysis, mean time between failures, Wohler curves, finite element analysis,
cohesive zone model, crack propagation kinetics, time-temperature collectives, quantitative characterization of fatigue damage, and fracture
maps.
Methods of failure analysis are critical to for material improvement and they are broadly discussed in this book. Fractography
of plastics is relatively a new field which has many commonalities with fractography of metals. Here various aspects of fractography
of plastics and metals are compared and contrasted. Fractography application in studies of static and cycling loading of ABS is also
discussed. Other methods include SEM, SAXS, FTIR, DSC, DMA, GC/MS, optical microscopy, fatigue behavior, multiaxial stress, residual
stress analysis, punch resistance, creep-rupture, impact, oxidative induction time, craze testing, defect analysis, fracture toughness,
activation energy of degradation.
Many references are given in this book to real products and real cases of their failure. The products
discussed include office equipment, automotive compressed fuel gas system, pipes, polymer blends, blow molded parts, layered, cross-ply
and continuous fiber composites, printed circuits, electronic packages, hip implants, blown and multilayered films, construction materials,
component housings, brake cups, composite pressure vessels, swamp coolers, electrical cables, plumbing fittings, medical devices, medical
packaging, strapping tapes, balloons, marine coatings, thermal switches, pressure relief membranes, pharmaceutical products, window profiles,
and bone cements.
Audience
Researchers and engineers in the plastics industry concerned with the reasons why plastics components and parts fail and who want to increase life of a product.
Contents
1. Practical Risk AnalysisuAs a Tool for Minimizing Plastic Product Failure
2. Avoiding the GIGO Syndrome
3. Defect Analysis and High
Density Polyethylene Pipe Durability
4. Progressive Failure Analysis of Fiber Composite Structures
5. Failure Analysis Models for Polyacetal
Molded Fittings in Plumbing Systems
6. Estimation of Time-Temperature-Collectives at Describing Aging of Polymer Materials
7. Fractography
of Metals and Plastics
8. Fractography of ABS
9. Attachment Design Analysis of a Plastic Housing Joined with Snap-Fits
10. Joint Performance
of Mechanical Fasteners under Dynamic Load
11. Morphological Study of Fatigue Induced Damage in Semi-Crystalline Polymers
12. Ductile
Failure and Delayed Necking in Polyethylene
13. Fatigue Behavior of Discontinuous Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene
14. Translating
Failure into SuccessuLessons Learned from Product Failure Analysis
15. Case Studies of Plastics Failure Related to Improper Formulation
16. Case Studies of Inadvertent Interactions between Polymers and Devices in Field Applications
17. Factors Affecting Variation in Gardner
Impact Testing
18. Standard Test Procedures for Relevant Material Properties for Structural Analysis
19. The Influence of Multidimensional
State of Stress on the Mechanical Properties of Thermoplastics
20. The Influence of Morphology on the Impact Performance of an Impact
Modified PP/PS Alloy
21. Morphology and Mechanical Behavior of Polypropylene Hot Plate Welds
22. Orientation Effects on the Weldability
of Polypropylene Strapping Tape
23. Activation Energies of Polymer Degradation
24. Effects of Processing Conditions on the Failure Mode
of an Aliphatic Polyketone Teropolymer
25. Durability Study of Conductive Copper Traces within Polyimide Based Substrates
26. The Role
of Heat Affected Zone (HAZ) on Mechanical Properties in Thermally Welded Low Density Polyethylene Blown Film
27. Plastics Failure Due
to Oxidative Degradation in Processing and Service
28. Comparing the Long Term Behavior of Tough Polyethylenes by Craze Testing
29. Crack
Propagation in Continuous Glass Fiber/Polypropylene Composites
30. Freeze-Thaw Durability of Composites for Civil Infrastructure
31.
Temperature-Moisture-Mechanical Response of Vinyl Ester Resins and Pultruded Vinyl Ester/e-glass Laminated Composites
32. Fracture Behavior
of Polypropylene Modified with Metallocene Catalyzed Polyolefin
33. Mechanical Performance of Polyamides with Influence of Moisture and
Temperature
34. Shelf Life Failure Prediction Considerations for Irradiated Polypropylene Medical Devices
35. Environmental Stress Cracking
of ABS IIRadiation Resistance of Multilayer Films by Instrumented Impact Testing
36. Mechanical Behavior of Fabric Film Laminates
37.
Determining Etch Compensation Factors for Printed Circuit Boards
38. Estimation of Long-Term Properties of Epoxies in Body Fluids
39.
Aspects of the Tensile Response of Random Continuous Glass/Epoxy Composites
40. Residual Stress Development in Marine Coatings under
Simulated Service Conditions
41. Evaluation of a Yield Criteria and Energy Absorbing Mechanisms of Rubber Modified Epoxies in Multiaxial
Stress States
42. Design Aids for Preventing Brittle Failure in Polycarbonate and Polyetherimide
43. Effect of Scale on Mechanical Performance
of PMMA
44. Defect Cost Analysis
45. 10 Common Pitfalls in Thin-Wall Plastic Part Design
46. Strategies for the Evaluation of Weathering-Induced
Failure of Polymers
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 345 pages, publication date: DEC-2001
ISBN-13: 978-1-884207-92-1
ISBN-10: 1-884207-92-8
Imprint: WILLIAM ANDREW
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