Principles of Polymer Engineering

By N.G. McCrum, C.B. Bucknall, C.P. Buckley

Book Overview

This text presents the structural characteristics of plastics, rubbers, and polymer composites, describing how these important materials are converted into useful products. Engineering principles and design procedures are accorded an exceptionally clear and rigorous treatment, illustrated with carefully chosen model calculations, numerous worked examples and problems. Aimed at undergraduates and postgraduate students of engineering and materials science, the book opens with chapters showing why plastics and rubbers have such distinctive properties and how they are affected by temperature, strain rate, and other factors. The second half of the book concentrates on the ways in which these properties can be exploited to produce components that function in the most effective manner.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198561520
• ISBN13: 9780198561521
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.9" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

a nice introduction for mechanical engineers

Provides a thorough introduction to the field in a matter that is readily accessible for undergraduate mechanical engineers. The most complex chapter on viscoelastic theory is well-explained, and makes only a modest use of calculus. Discussess all the basics (creep, relaxation, temperature, load history, etc.) The Chapters are as follows: 1) Structure of the molecule 2) Structure of polymeric solids 3) The elastic properties of rubber 4) Viscoelasticity 5) Yield and fracture 6) Reinforced polymers 7) Forming 8) Design For those interested in the computer modeling of the dynamic behavior of viscoelastic solids, there is another excellent book that delves more deeply (and requires a bit more math). "Mechanical Response of Polymers" by Wineman & Rajagopal will get you where you want to go when it comes to predicting the effects of time, temperature, and loading history. Also very accessible, although probably more suited to the graduate level.

Very complete

A very complete review of all the polymer engineering. Sometimes it is too fast, but it is very helpful to have a complete view on polymeric materials