As well as providing the materials for innovative design, polymers make a significant contribution to other long-life applications such as pipes, insulation, windows, cables and floor coverings. Consumption of plastics by the building and construction sector in Western Europe is predicted to rise by more than 60% to almost 8 million tonnes in 2010. This increase reflects a trend over the last 25 years, which has seen the building industry increasingly use plastics. Polymers are used very effectively for various structural and non-structural applications in construction, because they provide long-lasting and easy solutions. In the future, there will be few construction needs that plastics and advanced resins will not meet.

Rapra’s new Handbook of Polymers in Construction provides a wealth of information on the use of polymers in construction, giving insight to newcomers to the industry and to personnel already working in the construction sector.

Acknowledged experts in this field have provided chapters on condensation control, civil engineering applications, material properties, sustainable construction, processing for construction applications, use of plastics composites, rubber concrete, and possible health & safety issues.

Handbook of Polymers in Construction, edited by Güneri Akovali, retails at £95 (plus postage and packaging) and is available from http://www.polymer-books.com or from Publications Sales, Rapra Technology, Shawbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 4NR, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0) 1939 250383, Fax: +44 (0) 1939 251118, Email: publications@rapra.net

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Understand, design, and manufacture plastics

This resource provides you with the state-of-the-art information for the design, manufacture and application of plastics as well as its cutting-edge usage in nanotechnology.

• Includes the latest industry specifications and standards
• Covers the latest recycling methods

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Product Developers have found a wide array of application for thermoplastics in the automotive interior and exterior parts, business machines, medical, telecommunications equipment, microwaveable packaging, appliances, and specialty uses. However, finding a material that can meet consumer demands is no small task. While technological information is readily available regarding the general properties of common thermoplastic material, there is no single authoritative source for building and evaluating new product lines. Written by a top team of international experts, this book will focus only on new and emerging engineering resin property requirements, instead of properties of conventional engineering thermoplastics which are available from polymer producers and compounders. This book will incorporate important chemical, physical, mechanical and applications for engineering thermoplastic in one place, providing clear solutions to evaluate and compare existing product lines and with new and emerging products.

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In this 3rd Edition of the Reinforced Plastics Handbook the authors have continued the approach of the late John Murphy, author of the first and second editions.The book provides a compendium of information on every aspect of materials, processes, designs and construction.Fiber-reinforced plastics are a class of materials in which the basic properties of plastics are given mechanical reinforcement by the addition of fibrous materials. The wide choice of plastics resin matrices and the correspondingly wide choice of reinforcing materials mean that the permutations are virtually unlimited. But the optimum properties of resin and reinforcement cannot be obtained unless there is an effective bond between the two, and this is the continuing objective of reinforced plastics production, design and processing.

· New 3rd edition of this comprehensive practical manual
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Reinforced Plastics Handbook, Third Edition

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The handbook explains in plain terms why moldings shrink and warp, shows how additives and reinforcements change the picture, sets out the effect of molding process conditions, and tells why you never can have a single “”correct”" shrinkage value. But that’s not all. The handbook shows how to alleviate the problem by careful design of the molded part and the mold and by proper material selection. It also examines computer-aided methods of forecasting shrinkage and warpage. And most important of all, the handbook gives you the data you need to work with.

This is the most complete collection of shrinkage data ever made and includes an extensive compilation of hard-to-find multi-point information on how processing, part design, mold design, material and post mold treatment affect the part’s final dimensions. Manufacturers’ figures for thousands of grades, along with an exhaustive search of magazines, journals, conference papers, books, web sites and brochures combine to make this a powerful resource.

A lot depends on a dimensionally correct molding. Quality, speed to market, profit margins for the molder and toolmaker, the efficiency of secondary and assembly operations, reputation; all these are on the line. The Mold Shrinkage and Warpage Handbook is the book for people who have to live with shrinkage and warpage. It is the only book for people who have to commit themselves.

Handbook of Molded Part Shrinkage and Warpage

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This bestselling handbook provides detailed, basic information on the design and manufacture of molds for injection, compression and transfer molding (casting, impregnating, winding, centrifugal casting, laminating), and molding of expandable polystyrene.

Mold-Making Handbook

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Examining every important aspect of thermoplastic piping systems, this practical, single-source reference offers in-depth coverage of design, engineering, chemical resistance, costs, standards, codes, and specifications. Provides a resistance guide that lists over 800 chemicals and nearly 400 trade names cross-referenced to formal chemical names;furnishing all known chemical resistance data for the most popular thermoplastic piping systems! Covering applications, selection, installation, and maintenance, the Handbook of Thermoplastic Piping System Design addresses both pressure and drainage applications of rigid piping systems comprehensively explains thermoplastic joining methods gives a broad selection of manufacturers’ products for ease of comparison discusses each ISO international and American standard pertaining to thermoplastics and employs both U.S. and metric units supplies a product cost-comparison guide describes specification techniques, lists 25 generic product specifications, and illustrates product specification with a sample model and much more! Containing over 180 photographs, drawings, and tables, the Handbook of Thermoplastic Piping System Design is an incomparable day-to-day resource for mechanical, plastics, chemical, piping design, materials, plant, project, industrial, and building engineers; architects; system and equipment designers; installation contractors; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Handbook of Thermoplastic Piping System Design

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Since 1946 Plastics Mold Engineering Handbook has been a valued reference for engineers involved in one of the fastest growing and changing areas of technology. The fifth edition continues the tradition by providing basic information on the aspects of plastics mould construction and the moulding processes that utilize moulds producing the multitude of plastic parts in production today. The handbook has been extensively revised to provide new information on methods, materials and means to meet the needs of today’s moulders.

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FROM THE INTRODUCTION”Considerable effort has gone into the study of various aspects of flammability and of various plastic materials, so that these materials which are proving so useful to man will always be used in ways which will not compromise his safety. The task is a continuing one, because the family of plastics continues to grow, and, along with it, its variety of applications. Some of these future applications cannot even be conceived of at the present time. The needs of man and his society are changing, and with them the factors that affect his safety, comfort, and convenience. A flammability handbook for plastics must necessarily involve a variety of sciences and technologies spread across the whole spectrum of human knowledge, and it is impossible to discuss all the subjects in great depth. Any details extracted for attention are brought because they are believed to be significant to the overall effort to make plastics as useful and safe as humanly possible.”

Flammability Handbook for Plastics