Principles of Polymer Processing

Contents -  Preface -  Notation -  1 Introduction -  1.1 Polymeric Materials -  1.2 Polymer Processing -  1.3 Analysis of Polymer Processes -  1.4 Scope of the Book -  2 Introduction to the Main Polymer Processes -  2.1 Screw Extrusion -  2.2 Injection Moulding -  2.3 Blow Moulding -  2.4 Calendering -  2.5 Other Processes -  2.6 Effects of Processing -  3 Processing Properties of Polymers -  3.1 Melting and Thermal Properties of Polymers  -  3.2 Viscous Properties of Polymer Melts -  3.3 Methods of Measuring Melt Viscosities  -  3.4 Elastic Properties of Polymer Melts -  3.5 Temperature and Pressure Dependence of Melt Properties -  3.6 Processing Properties of Solid Polymers -  4 Fundamentals of Polymer Melt Flow -  4.1 Tensor Notation  -  4.2 Continuum Mechanics Equations  -  4.3 Constitutive Equations -  4.4 Boundary Conditions  -  4.5 Dimensional Analysis of Melt Flows -  4.6 The Lubrication Approximation -  4.7 Mixing in Melt Flows  -  5 Some Melt Flow Processes -  5.1 Some Simple Extrusion Dies -  5.2 Narrow Channel Flows in Dies and Crossheads -  5.3 Applications to Die Design -  5.4 Calendering -  5.5 Melt Flow in an Intensely Sheared Thin Film -  6 Screw Extrusion -  6.1 Melt Flow in Screw Extruders -  6.2 Solids Conveying in Extruders -  6.3 Melting in Extruders -  6.4 Power Consumption in Extruders -  6.5 Mixing in Extruders -  6.6 Surging in Extruders -  6.7 Over-all Performance and Design of Extruders -  7 Injection Moulding -  7.1 Reciprocating Screw Plastication -  7.2 Melt Flow in Injection Nozzles -  7.3 Flow and Heat Transfer in Moulds -  Appendix A Finite Element Analysis of Narrow Channel Flow -  Appendix B Solution of the Screw Channel Developing Melt Flow Equations -  Appendix C Solution of the Melting Model Equations -  Further Reading -  Index -

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Principles of Polymer Processing