Plastics Standards bibliographies

Much information about the properties and applications of commercial plastics is readily available in the more or less obvious standard sources, such as books, treatises, handbooks, and technical society specifications. Several of these (exclusive of books and treatises) are listed in the appended bibliography (4, 5, 23, 27, 42, 48). 

The volume of the literature on plastics has become so great that the problem of knowing where to seek required information, even that relating only to properties and applications, has become rather complex. In addition to naming some standard sources of information, this paper has attempted to rate the periodical literature in accordance with an empirical scheme based on an analysis of recent literature. No claim to an exhaustive treatment of the subject is made, but it is hoped that this discussion and the appended bibliography will give some assistance to the searcher for technical data relating to the properties and applications of plastics. 

BS 4618. Section 4.5 [228], provides guidance in the exposure of plastics to soil burial, but it is only a general guidance doeument and does not lay down precise procedures for evaluation programmes. ISO 846 is referenced in this standard, and a useful bibliography is provided. Within ASTM, G2I [229] and G22 [2.W] cover the effects of fungi and bacteria respectively. 

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