Understanding Polymer Processing

Part I - Polymeric MaterialsThis section gives a general introduction to polymers, including mechanical behavior of polymers and melt rheologyPart II Polymer ProcessingThe major polymer processes are introduced in this section, including extrusion, mixing, injection molding, thermoforming, blow molding, film blowing, and many others.Part III ModelingThis last section delivers the tools to allow the engineer to solve back-of-the-envelope polymer processing models. It includes dimensional analysis and scaling, transport phenomena in polymer processing, and modeling polymer processes