Author: Wayne Roger
Publisher: Smithers Rapra Pre
Keywords: products, healthcare, polymer, sterilisation
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-04-22
List price: $171.00
ISBN-10: 1859574904
ISBN-13: 9781859574904

"The use of polymers in medical technology continues to grow and provides major business opportunities for companies who service the medical industry. Sterilisation has always been challenging but sterilisation of polymer healthcare products is an even greater challenge - how do you sterilise without adversely affecting the end use or the end user? This comprehensive reference supplies insights into this developing field. Sterilisation of Polymer Healthcare Products offers a thorough description of the conventional methods of ethylene oxide, gamma and electron-beam radiation, steam and dry hea

Authors:N. Tucker,  K. Lindsey,
Publisher: Smithers Rapra Pre
Keywords: composites, automotive, introduction
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $144.00
ISBN-10: 1859572790
ISBN-13: 9781859572795

Composites are being used more and more in the automotive industry, because of their strength, weight, quality and cost advantages. In 1998-1999, to further knowledge of composites, the Rover Group in conjunction with the Warwick Manufacturing Group devised a Composite Awareness course. This book is an updated and expanded version of the course notes. This book is intended to give readers an appreciation of composites, materials properties, manufacturing technologies and the wider implications of using composites in the automotive sector. It will be useful for those already working with compos

Author: D. Eave
Publisher: Smithers Rapra Pre
Keywords: technology, trends, foams, polymer
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1996-12-31
List price: $459.00
ISBN-10: 1859572405
ISBN-13: 9781859572405

This report provides an overview of the current status of the foam industry. The implications of the Montreal Protocol for blowing agents and for foam production are discussed. The different polymeric foams are considered individually with discussion of key properties, material and processing development and end-use applications. The impact of other environmental influences is also examined, with discussion of waste recovery issues such as the Packaging Waste Directive and the End-of-Life Vehicle Directive.

Author: D.J. Du
Publisher: Smithers Rapra Pre
Keywords: reports, vol, review, rapra, structural, adhesives, engineering
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $153.00
ISBN-10: 185957436X
ISBN-13: 9781859574362

This review discusses the types of engineering and structural adhesives in use, properties, advantages and disadvantages, and applications. The author is an expert with many years of experience in adhesive research and development. The review is accompanied by around 400 abstracts from papers and books in the Rapra Polymer Library database, to facilitate further reading on this subject.

Authors:V.M. Litvinov,  P. De,
Publisher: Smithers Rapra Pre
Keywords: materials, rubbery, rubber, spectroscopy
Number of Pages: 654
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $297.00
ISBN-10: 1859572804
ISBN-13: 9781859572801

This book deals with the application of spectroscopic techniques for characterisation of chemical and physical structures in viscoelastic materials, such as unvulcanised elastomers and their vulcanisates, various rubbery materials and some plastics, which when blended with particular additives (plasticisers) behave like rubbers. Analysis of the rubbery materials is complicated by the fact that rubbery products, such as tyres, tubes, seals, V-belts and hoses, contain in the rubbery matrix a significant amount of various compounds, i.e., fillers, vulcanising agents, antioxidants and plasticisers

Author: Mihail Ionescu
Publisher: Smithers Rapra Pre
Keywords: polyurethane, polyols, technology, chemistry
Number of Pages: 602
Published: 2008-04-21
List price: $243.00
ISBN-10: 1859575013
ISBN-13: 9781859575017

Polyurethanes have become one of the most dynamic groups of polymers and they find use in nearly every aspect of modern life, in applications such as furniture, bedding, seating and instrument panels for cars, shoe soles, thermoinsulation, carpet backings, packaging, and as coatings. The main raw materials used for the production of polyurethanes are polyols, isocyanates and propylene oxide. The first of these is the subject of the latest Rapra Handbook: Chemistry and Technology of Polyols for Polyurethanes. This book considers the raw materials used to build the polyurethane polymeric archite

Author: E. Abdel-Bary
Publisher: Smithers Rapra Pre
Keywords: films, plastic, handbook
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 1998-12-31
List price: $198.00
ISBN-10: 185957338X
ISBN-13: 9781859573389

Plastic films are high-performance materials which play an essential part in modern life. Plastic films are mostly used in packakging applications but as will be seen from this book they are also used in the agricultural, medical and engineering fields. The plastics films industry uses state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and is continuously seeking out new technologies to improve its performanace. The understanding of the nature of plastic films, their production techniques, applications and their characterisation is essential for producing new types of plastic films. This handbook has be