From crash helmets to packaging, this is the complete guide to understanding, selecting, processing and working with polymer foams
This handbook explores the applications of polymer foams, and the properties that make them suitable for so many applications, in the detail required by postgraduate students, researchers and the many industrial engineers and designers who work with polymer foam in industry.
It covers the mechanical properties of foams and foam microstructure, processing of foams, mechanical testing and analysis (using Finite element analysis). In addition, it uniquely offers a broader perspective on the actual engineering of foams and foam based (or foam including) products by including nine detailed case studies which firmly plant the theory of the book in a real world context, making it ideal for both polymer engineers and chemists and mechanical engineers and product designers.
* Complete coverage of the mechanical and design aspects of polymer foams from an acknowledged international expert: no other book is available with this breadth making this a plastics engineer's first choice for a single volume Handbook
* Polymer foams are ubiquitous in modern life, used everywhere from running shoes to furniture, and this book includes nine extensive case studies covering each key class of application, including biomechanics
* Offers a rigorous mechanical and microstructure perspective, plus a computer based chapter: Essential for engineers and designers alike.
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New York, British Standards Institution, Butterworth Heinemann, Impact Eng, Royal Medica, Acta Mater, Low Density Cellular Plastics, Human Factors, Surface Evolver, University of Birmingham, Academic Press, Automotive Design, Dow Chemical Company, Human Kinetics Publ, Mechanics of Cellular Plastics, Shaker Publishing, The Engineering of Sport, Bone Min, Cambridge University Press, Fluent Inc, Polyurethane Foam Association, Snell Memorial Foundation, Sound Vib, Stapp Car Crash Conference, Technical University of Delft |