The second edition of "Principles of Polymer Engineering" brings the field of materials science up-to-date for undergraduates studying materials and polymer science. The opening chapters show why plastics and rubbers have such distinctive properties and how they are affected by temperature, strain rate, and other factors. The rest of the book concentrates on how these properties can be exploited to produce functional components within the constraints placed on them. The main changes for the second edition are a new chapter on environmental issues and substantially rewritten sections on yield and fracture and forming. Included is a solutions manual.
- ISBN10 0198565275
- ISBN13 9780198565277
- Publish Date 28 August 1997 (first published 1 September 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 461
- Language English