If you work with polymers, ceramics, or composites, then this is the all purpose reference book you need. Culled from the four-volume Engineered Materials Handbook Series, this single desk edition provides basic property data and an outline of fabrication methods for each material. A new "Guide to Materials Selection" gives comparative property data and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these materials for a variety of applications. There are also new sections on recycling plastics, metallizing of plastics, recycling and environmental impact of ceramics, and ceramic-matrix composites.
Containing "quick study" information about the most widely used nonmetallic materials, this book gives you hundreds of well-organized tables with critical details on properties and processing. A "General Engineering Tables and Data" section provides convenient summary of facts and figures for quick reference. And you'll find numerous graphs, charts, illustrations, and photographs, plus an extensive glossary of terms.
Foreword
Policy on Units of Measure
Preface
Authors and Reviewers
Section 1 : General Information and Data
Section 2 : Introduction to Polymeric Materials
Section 3 : Properties and Characteristics of Engineering Plastics and Elastomers
Section 4 : Processing and Fabrication of Engineering Plastics
Section 5 : Testing and Characterization of Polymeric Materials
Section 6 : Polymer-Metrix Composites
Section 7 : Adhesives and Sealants
Section 8 : Introduction to Ceramics and Glasses
Section 9 : Applications, Processing, and Characterization of Ceramics
Section 10 : Advanced Ceramics
Section 11 : Ceramic-Matrix Composites and Carbon-Carbon Composites
Section 12 : Glasses
Abbreviations, Symbols, and Tradenames
Index
