Designing, plastics selection guides

Rosato, D. V., Product Design Plastic Selection Guide, SPE ANTEC, May 1990. 

The CRC-Elsevier materials selector , 2nd edition, N.A. Waterman, and M.E Ashby CRC Press (1996) ISBN 0412615509. (Now, also available on CD-ROM). Basic reference work. Three-volume compilation of data for all materials includes selection and design guide. The Materials Selector is the most comprehensive and up-to-date comparative information system on engineering materials and related methods of component manufacture. It contains information on the properties, performance and processability of metals, plastics, ceramics, composites, surface treatments and the characteristics and comparative economics of the manufacturing routes which convert these materials into engineering components and products. 

Rapra have published their own chemical resistance data sheets [9, 10], based on results of tests at Rapra performed by a small team of operators. They are thus comparable one with another and their sources are known. Rapra s Plascams materials selection database provides durability properties on a ranking basis and their Plastics Design Guide includes Plascams and other useful programmes. In 2002 Rapra and Faraday Plastics have launched a new website of environmental stress cracking data (www.esc-plastics.com). 

Industries such as foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, plastics, rubbers, and also some others have to do with mixing of high viscosity liquids or pastes, of powders together and of powders with pastes. Much of this kind of work is in batch mode. The processes are so diverse and the criteria for uniformity of the final product are so imprecise that the nonspecialist can do little in the way of equipment design, or in checking on the recommendations of equipment manufacturers. Direct experience is the main guide to selection of the best kind of equipment, predicting how well and quickly it will perform, and what power consumption will be. For... 

BECK, R. D., Plastic Product Design, Van Nostrand-Reinhold, New York (1970) coLLYER, A. A., A Practical Guide to the Selection of High Temperature Engineering Thermoplastics, Elsevier Advanced Technology, London (1990)... 

The book consists of nine chapters. The first three constitute a comprehensive user s guide to plastics, covering materials and processes generally, but with an automotive focus. The first chapter includes an historical summary of automotive plastics, and examines the problems as well as the benefits of the materials. The second chapter ( Understanding plastics ) includes sections on composites, processes and functional design, and the third ( Choosing plastics ) offers routes to material selection in... 

In this section, a guide is given to indicate the performance of several different adhesives for a selection of thermoplastics. The bulk of this information was taken from The Loctite Design Guide for Bonding Plastics [2] issued by Henkel Ltd and for more detailed information the reader should refer to this guide. 

There are chapters on the bonding of difficnlt plastics, joint design and dispensing systems but an adhesive cannot be selected for an application solely on the information given in this guide as it is not possible to provide environmental data for every combination of adhesive, plastic grade and joint confignration and so it is always recommended that adhesive manufactnrers are consnlted and trials are condncted. 

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