
Automotive Plastics and Composites
Materials and Processing
Description
Key Features
- Analyzes mechanical, chemical, physical, and thermal properties, enabling the reader to select the appropriate material for specific applications
- Explains polymer processing, with thorough coverage of operations across both closed-mold and open-mold processing
- Provides systematic coverage of materials, including commodity and engineering thermoplastics, bio-based plastics, thermosets, composites, elastomeric polymers, and 3D-printed plastics
Readership
Industry: Plastics engineers, product designers, technicians, scientists and R&D professionals, looking to develop materials, components, or products for automotive applications. Academia: Researchers, scientists and advanced students in plastics engineering, polymer processing, materials science and engineering.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Polymer Materials
3. Microstructures of Polymers
4. Physical and Mechanical Properties
5. Rheology and Plastic Flow
6. Flow Analysis with Injection Molding
7. Commodity Plastics
8. Engineering Plastics
9. Elastomers and Rubbers
10. Bio-based and Biodegradable Plastics
11. Thermoset Polymers
12. Polymer Composites
13. Extrusion
14. Injection Molding
15. Blow Molding
16. Compression Molding
17. Recycling and Environmental Aspects
18. Design Aspects in Automotive Plastics and Composites
19. Additive Manufacturing in Automotive
20. Sustainable Car
Appendix A. Answers to Questions
Product details
- No. of pages: 392
- Language: English
- Copyright: © William Andrew 2021
- Published: June 23, 2021
- Imprint: William Andrew
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128180082
- eBook ISBN: 9780128182406
About the Author
Joseph P. Greene
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