Polymer Engineering Principles: Properties, Process, and Tests for Design (Hanser Publishers)

This book will introduce design engineers and others to the basic elements of polymers. It presents such inherent polymer characteristics as glass transition temperature, melt temperature range, molecular weight distribution, viscoelasticity, and degree of crystallinity, relating these properties to polymer solid and fluid behavior. Readers need only a rudimentary understanding of classical material performance to gain a more thorough understanding of polymer responses to testing conditions and will benefit from numerous examples and problems throughout the text.