Reinforced Plastics HandbookIn this 3rd Edition of the Reinforced Plastics Handbook the authors have continued the approach of the late John Murphy, author of the first and second editions.The book provides a compendium of information on every aspect of materials, processes, designs and construction.Fiber-reinforced plastics are a class of materials in which the basic properties of plastics are given mechanical reinforcement by the addition of fibrous materials. The wide choice of plastics resin matrices and the correspondingly wide choice of reinforcing materials mean that the permutations are virtually unlimited. But the optimum properties of resin and reinforcement cannot be obtained unless there is an effective bond between the two, and this is the continuing objective of reinforced plastics production, design and processing.
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Chapter 3 Plastics | 109 |
Chapter 4 Compound Constructions | 212 |
Chapter 5 Fabricating Processes | 254 |
Chapter 6 MarketsProducts | 483 |
Chapter 7 Designs | 613 |
Chapter 8 Engineering Analysis | 765 |
Chapter 9 Selecting Plastic and Process | 817 |
Chapter 10 Summary | 997 |
Chapter 11 Conversions | 1035 |
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Page 42 - ... glass — an inorganic product of fusion that has cooled to a rigid condition without crystallizing.
Page 63 - ... fillers comprised of ground rocks or natural or refined minerals. Some fillers, so-called commodity minerals, are relatively inexpensive and are used mostly as extenders. A good example of these is ground limestone. Other fillers, socalled specialty minerals, are usually reinforcing fillers. These are inherently small particle size fillers, such as talc, and surface chemically modified fillers. See also Organic Filler.