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  • Plastics Packaging

    Properties, Processing, Applications, and Regulations
    • 3rd Edition
    • Susan E.M. Selke + 2 more
    • English
    The increasing importance of plastic materials in packaging makes it mandatory for everyone in this industry to command a basic understanding of the properties of the common packaging plastics. The third edition of this well received book provides just that to students and packaging professionals alike: Material properties and how they relate to the chemical structure of the polymers, common processing methods for packaging applications, help with writing specifications, designing, fabricating, testing, and controlling the quality of the plastic material are covered comprehensively.

  • Risk and change management in complex systems

    Proceedings of the 16th International DSM Conference, Paris, France, 2-4 July 2014
    • 1st Edition
    • Franck Marle + 4 more
    • English
    Dependency and Structure Modeling (DSM) techniques focus on system elements and their interdependencies related to product, process and organization domains. They contribute to support mastering the amount of information required to better understand, model, and analyze, then make improved decisions to design and manage complex systems. The International DSM Conference is the annual forum for practitioners, researchers and developers to exchange experiences, discuss new concepts and showcase results and tools. Hosted by Ecole Centrale Paris and organized in collaboration with Technische Universität München, the 16th DSM Conference took place in Chatenay-Malabry, France, 2-4 July 2014. The International DSM Conference is an endorsed event of the Design Society. The theme of this 2014 volume is "Risk and Change Management in Complex Systems". It is justified by the ever-growing complexity of our systems, involving the difficulty to anticipate potential indirect consequences of events, whether desired or not. Accordingly, this implies improvement of the methods and tools supporting the design and management of such systems. This volume contains 37 peer-reviewed papers, that describe the recent advances and emerging challenges in DSM research and applications. These Proceedings represent a broad overview of the state-of-the-art on the development and application of DSM. There are a significant number of papers with industry authors or co-authors, reflecting this balance and synergy between conceptual development and real-life industrial application, which are in the genes of the DSM Conference series

  • Reducing Risk in Innovation

    • 1st Edition
    • Elke Scheurmann + 3 more
    • English
    Dependency and Structure Modelling (DSM) techniques support the management of complexity by focusing attention on the elements of a complex system and how they are related to each other. The DSM perspective can assist in understanding, designing and optimising complex systems – including products, processes and organisations. This volume comprises peer-reviewed papers representing state-of-the-art in DSM research and applications. The papers were presented at the 15th International DSM Conference held in August 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.

  • Plastics Failure Guide

    • 2nd Edition
    • Myer Ezrin
    • English
    Plastics failure, to a certain extent, is the result of a phenomenal increase in the number and variety of applications in relatively few years. The focus of this book is on actual field and product failures. The treatment is comprehensive, emphasizing cause and prevention. The concept of the interdependence of material, design, and processing is applied to all examples and cases. The "how to" of prevention is brought out as a logical extension of the cause of failure.

  • Understanding Injection Molds

    • 1st Edition
    • Harry Pruner + 1 more
    • English
    This book opens up the entire subject of injection mold technology, including numerous special procedures, in an established and practical way. It is specifically intended for beginners, young professionals, business owners, as well as engineering students. The chapters are clearly structured and easy to understand. The textbook is designed so that it provides a complete basic knowledge of injection molds in chronological order as well as daily guidance and advice. The numerous colored figures allow a rapid understanding of the content, which is especially helpful to the beginner who wants to learn about injection molds quickly. In the foreground of the description are thermoplastic molds. Divergent processes for thermoset or elastomer molds are explained at the end of each chapter. The book captures the current state of the art and is written by authors from the field.

  • Troubleshooting and Analysis of Single-Screw Extrusion

    • 1st Edition
    • Gregory A. Campbell + 1 more
    • English
    Prior extrusion books are based on barrel rotation physics―this is the first book that focuses on the actual physics of the process―screw rotation physics. In the first nine chapters, theories and math models are developed. Then, these models are used to solve actual commercial problems in the remainder of the book. Realistic case studies are presented that are unique in that they describe the problem as viewed by a typical plant engineer and provide the actual dimensions of the screws. Overall, there is not a book on the market with this level of detail and disclosure. The new knowledge in this book will be highly useful for production engineers, technical service engineers working with customers, consultants specializing in troubleshooting and process design, and process researchers and designers that are responsible for processes that running at maximum rates and maximum profitability.

  • Flow Analysis

    • 2nd Edition
    • Peter Kennedy + 1 more
    • English
    Given the importance of injection molding as a process as well as the simulation industry that supports it, there was a need for a book that deals solely with the modeling and simulation of injection molding. This book meets that need. The modeling and simulation details of filling, packing, residual stress, shrinkage, and warpage of amorphous, semi-crystalline, and fiber-filled materials are described. This book is essential for simulation software users, as well as for graduate students and researchers who are interested in enhancing simulation. And for the specialist, numerous appendices provide detailed information on the topics discussed in the chapters.

  • Simple Methods for Identification of Plastics

    • 5th Edition
    • Dietrich Braun
    • English
    Processors and users of plastics often need to determine the chemical nature of a plastics specimen. The highly practical and useful manual, now in a fifth revised and supplemented edition, will enable you to determine the class of plastic of a particular specimen. No extensive knowledge of chemistry is required and yet it is more than a simple tabular compilation. This manual is a handy, highly effective tool for many practical situations. An additional supplement is a chapter that shows strategies for identifying historical plastic objects; this is of particular interest for assemblers, collectors, and conservators.

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