Analysis & Testing

Plastics are now being used on a large scale for the packaging of fatty and aqueous foodstuffs and beverages, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. This is evident for all to see on the supermarket shelves, margarine is packed in polystyrene tubs, beer is packed in PVC bottles and meats and bacon in...

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Many foods depend on additives for safety, stability or preservation. Foods are packaged to protect them and keep them in good condition while they are delivered to shops, stacked on shelves or stored at home.

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This book gives an up-to-date and thorough exposition of the state-of-the-art theories and availability of instrumentation needed to effect chemical and physical analysis of polymers. This is supported by approximately 1200 references. The book should be of great interest to all those engaged in the...

This book is intended to be a complete compendium of the types of methodology that have evolved for the determination of the chemical composition of polymers.

Volume 1 covers the methodology used for the determination of metals, non-metals and organic functional groups in polymers, and for the...

In recent years there has been increasing demand for fire retardant versions of a range of plastics. Applications include fire retardancy in vehicles, aircraft, manned space vehicles, marine and industrial applications such as electronics, a wide range of applications in the building...

A valuable resource on polymer characterization and analysis for scientists and practitioners in various disciplines.

Based on Wiley's renowned Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, Characterization and Analysis of Polymers provides coverage of key methods of characterization of...

Composite materials make their way into all aspects of modern technological society, but particularly so for applications requiring great strength and light weight such as in the aerospace industry. Because they are hybrid heterogeneous materials, they can be difficult to characterize with any one...

Lignocellulosic materials are a natural, abundant and renewable resource essential to the functioning of industrial societies and critical to the development of a sustainable global economy. As wood and paper products, they have played an important role in the evolution of civilization....

Polymer are organic, often complex molecular compounds used as the building blocks for plastics, elastomers and various types of synthetic engineered materials.

Polymer scientists and chemists are not always familiar with the characterization methods best used for polymeric materials. And knowing...

With its focus on the characterization of nanocomposites using such techniques as x-ray diffraction and spectrometry, light and electron microscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, as well as nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy, this book helps to correctly interpret the recorded data....

Food and beverages can be very aggressive chemical milieu and may interact strongly with materials that they touch. Whenever food is placed in contact with another substance, there is a risk that chemicals from the contact material may migrate into the food. These chemicals may be harmful if...

Compatibility of Pharmaceutical Products and Contact Materials helps pharmaceutical, toxicology, analytical, and regulatory affairs professionals assess the safety of leachable and extractable chemicals associated with drug product packaging, manufacturing systems, and devices. The most...

Polymer laboratories use a variety of analytical techniques to determine the properties and characteristics of polymers in order to select the best material for a specific purpose and to determine why a material has failed. This volume describes a range of analytical techniques for compositional...

Given such advantages as low weight compared to strength and toughness, laminated composites are now used in a wide range of applications. Their increasing use has underlined the need to understand their principal mode of failure, delamination. This important book reviews key research in...

This book is designed as a practical text for use in the laboratories of the plastic producer and user industries and by others such as universities and institutions who are concerned with problems associated with additives and adventitious impurities in polymers.

It is now about 30 years...

Polymers are found in every aspect of our daily lives. Materials must be carefully selected to ensure that properties match performance requirements.

It is often necessary to understand the chemical nature of a material to determine whether it is suitable for a particular application. This book...

Elastomeric components are widely used in engineering. Increasing demands are placed on them to withstand hostile conditions such as high temperature and corrosive environments. These demands make it harder to predict likely service life or improve design to ensure their longer-term performance....

There are many books on electron microscopy, however, the study of polymers using EM necessitates special techniques, precautions and preparation methods, including ultramicrotomy. This book discusses the general characteristics of the various techniques of EM, including scanning force microscopy...

The growing use of polymer composites is leading to an increasing demand for fractographic expertise. Fractography is the study of the fracture surface morphology and is an essential tool for advancing the understanding of confidence in composite structural behavior. Fractography gives an insight...

This revised edition is entirely devoted to the failure analysis of coatings and paints with references to seltected markets.

The latest edition contains new material on surface preparation, transfer of salt to steel from contaminated abrasive, effect of peak density on coating...

- discusses various failure mechanisms, including manufacturing defects
- reviews testing techniques and modelling methods for predicting potential failure
- investigates failure in aerospace, automotive, defence, marine and off-shore applications
- considers...

-examines past, present and future trends associated with fatigue life prediction of composite materials and structures

- assesses novel computational methods for fatigue life modelling and prediction of composite materials under constant amplitude loading

-specific chapters...

The book covers the fatigue testing of specimens, curve fitting of equations to the test data, and the use of such equations in life prediction. Earlier chapters are background in the nature of rubber, history of its usage, brief mention of types of rubber and manufacturing methods. Stress-strain...

Engineers need to be able to test the flammability of the materials they use in buildings and other structures. However, the range of test procedures and regulations in this important area is often confusing. Flammability testing of materials used in construction, transport and mining provides an...

Given the infinite number of applications of polymeric materials in everyday life, especially applications where a failure in service may lead to economic loss, injury or death, the ability to determine the cause of failure using forensic engineering techniques is essential. Forensic polymer...

This first book to cover the topic in such great detail summarizes and evaluates the latest developments in green polymerization methods.

Leading experts in the field discuss new every aspect -- from renewable materials to waste reduction, and from biocatalysis to solvent-free...

Most plastics and polymers used for consumer goods and technical applications contain numerous additives, many of which are potentially hazardous to human health and the environment. The Handbook for the Chemical Analysis of Plastic and Polymer Additives provides a detailed reference for the...

Written in easy-to-read and -use format, this book updates and revises its bestselling predecessor to become the most complete, comprehensive resource on plastics testing. This book has an emphasis on significance of test methods and interpretation of results. The book covers all aspects of...

Knowledge of the properties of plastics is essential for designing products, specifying the material to be used, carrying out quality control on finished products, failure analysis and for understanding the structure and behaviour of new materials.

Each class of materials has its own specific test...

The aim of Introduction to Polymer Analysis is to familiarize the reader with all aspects of plastic analysis. The book covers the analysis of the main types of plastics now in use commercially.

Introduction to Polymer Analysis gives an up-to-date and thorough exposition of the present state of...

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The use of plastics is widespread. Less widespread, however, is a clear understanding and examination of the many forms of degradation inherent within the very environments these materials must perform. Medical...

Optical microscopy is one of the most valuable but under utilized tools for analyzing fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites. This hands-on instructional book covers everything: sample preparation, microscopic techniques, and applications. The power of...

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Performance of Plastics is devoted to the subject of service performance of polymers and composites. The book introduces the reader to the basic properties of polymers and their behavior, It continues with the...

This book discusses the physical rather than the chemical examination of the properties of polymers on the basis of the type of equipment used, examples of the applications of these techniques are given.

Techniques examined include thermal analysis (thermogravimetric analysis and evolved...

Whether it’s called “fixed equipment” (at ExxonMobil), “stationary equipment” (at Shell), or “static equipment” (in Europe), this type of equipment is the bread and butter of any process plant. Used in the petrochemical industry, pharmaceutical industry,...

Industrial and domestic piping is increasingly made from various plastics and composites, and these materials withstand heavy use over long periods. They are, however, affected by environmental and other factors over time and can degrade, causing major problems within piping systems.

This...

"Plastics Additives and Testing” is a practical book for engineers and operators and discusses both inorganic and organic chemicals that are widely used as additives in plastics processing operations.

It is common practice today to use analytical techniques to improve...

This book contains analysis of reasons that cause products to fail. General methods of product failure evaluation give powerful tools in product improvement. Such methods, discussed in the book, include practical risk analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, preliminary hazard analysis,...

The completely revised and updated 3rd edition of this handbook covers all aspects of plastics flammability from fundamentals to the detailed description of national and international regulations, standards, test methods, and the approval procedures for plastics and plastics components in various...

Derived from the fourth edition of the well-known Plastics Technology Handbook, Plastics Fundamentals, Properties, and Testing covers the behavior, characterization, and evaluation of polymers. With a lucid approach and wealth of valuable information, this volume looks at the remarkable versatility...

Combined with a solid engineering background, this book provides the information and industrial case studies an engineer needs to both make informed decisions about selecting appropriate testing techniques and effectively troubleshoot problems in the field of plastics manufacturing.

The...

Polymer Microscopy, Third Edition, is a comprehensive and practical guide to the study of the microstructure of polymers, and is the result of the authors' many years of academic and industrial experience. To address the needs of students and professionals from a variety of backgrounds, introductory...

The aim of the Polymer Reference Book is to familiarise the reader with all aspects of the techniques used in the examination of polymers, including chemical, physico-chemical and purely physical methods of examination.

This book describes the types of techniques now available to the...

Polymers are one of industry’s most vital substances. In what is an extremely practical and applicable new work, experts provide concise explanations, with examples and illustrations, of the key techniques in this important field.

In each case, after basic principles have been reviewed,...

The staggering growth rates in plastics production and applications increase the demand for meaningful measuring and analysis methods in polymer testing. The advances in electronic measuring techniques led to further developments in classic testing methods as well as to completely new methods....

All plastics are complex materials made from basic or intermediate polymers, along with various agents and additives to create desired qualities like color, elasticity, durability, thermal resistance, electrical and optical properties, and so on. Thus, it is imperative that these ingredients...

An excellent overview of recent advances in polyolefin characterization, providing many facts hitherto unavailable. The top quality contributions span such fields as separation and fractionation, high throughput, thermal and crystallinity analysis, spectroscopy and rheology.

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This title tells you everything you need to know about the principles and limitations of computerised colour measuring systems. Mathematics and optical theory are kept to a minimum, replaced by numerous real-life...

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There are many different chemicals and materials in use today. These are subject to stringent regulations, which include a requirement for physico-chemical and toxicity testing. In some countries existing chemicals are also...

After price and delivery time, the most frequently asked question about a product is ‘How long will it last?’ Lifetime expectancy is often many years, the service conditions may be complex, and there is a scarcity of definitive data on durability. The situation is complicated by the fact that there...

The second edition of this excellent book brings many new features, which were outlined in the preface to the 2nd Edition. 

The pursuit of the golden balance between oversimplification and overload with theory has always been the primary goal of every author of...

The failure mechanisms of plastic materials can often be identified only by a closer look at their microscopic appearance, which requires high magnification images of the affected surfaces. This book is an atlas of scanning electron images of plastic failures. Its intention is to provide a...

Processors and users of plastics often need to determine the chemical nature of a plastics specimen. This highly practical and useful manual, now in a fifth revised and supplemented edition, will enable you to determine the class of plastic of a particular specimen. No extensive knowledge of...

Processors and users of plastics often need to determine the chemical nature of a plastics specimen. The highly practial and useful manual will enable you to determine the class of plastics of the specimen. No extensive knowledge of chemistry is required and yet it is far more than a simple...

Mechanics of composites for all aspects of stress, deformation, loading

·Special section on thermal stresses caused by curing

·Dozens of key calculations, ready for computer programming in Fortran

·Series of sample problems continued throughout the...

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• Emphasizes the macromechanical (structural) level over micromechanical issues and analyses
• Provides a new chapter on stresses near elliptical holes in multi-angle composite laminates induced by an arbitrary combination of in-plane...

This is a much-needed text that focuses on the method recently developed to study the surfaces of synthetic polymeric membranes using an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM).

AFM is becoming a very important tool for the characterization of synthetic polymeric membranes, as The development of...

Presents a solid introduction to thermal analysis, methods, instrumentation, calibration, and application along with the necessary theoretical background.

Useful to chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and engineers who are new to thermal analysis techniques, and to existing users of...

Thermal degradation of polymeric materials is an important issue from both the academic and the industrial viewpoints. Understanding the thermal degradation of polymers is of paramount importance for developing a rational technology of polymer processing and higher-temperature applications....

This book reviews the various thermal methods used for the characterisation of polymer properties and composition. All these methods study the properties of polymers as they change with temperature.

The methods discussed in this book are: differential photocalorimetry,...

The assessment of all materials - and especially elastomeric and plastic components – for the presence of leachable and extractable components, forms an important part of the submission for approval of a new drug system or medical device.

This Update gives a detailed,...