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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Contents
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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 |
Bibliography | 1043 |
Index | 1051 |
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Page 42 - ... glass — an inorganic product of fusion that has cooled to a rigid condition without crystallizing.
Page 440 - SPLIT-RING MOLD A mold in which a split cavity block is assembled in a chase to permit the forming of undercuts in a molded piece. These parts are ejected from the mold and then separated from the piece.
Page 442 - The area is calculated from the projected area taken at right angles to the direction of applied force and includes all areas under pressure during complete closing of the mold. The unit pressure is calculated by dividing the total force applied by this projected area, and is expressed in pounds per square inch.
Page 280 - Method of molding thermosetting materials in which the plastic is first softened by heat and pressure in a transfer chamber and then forced or transferred by high pressure through suitable sprues, runners, and gates into a closed mold for final curing.
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.
Page 108 - Each end floats over at least two consecutive picks, permitting a greater number of yarns per unit area than a plain weave while not losing a great deal of fabric stability twist Spiral turns about its axis per unit length for a textile strand; expressed as turns per inch.
Page 397 - Sintering— In forming articles from fusible powders, eg, nylon, the process of holding the pressedpowder article at a temperature just below its melting point for about Vi hour.