The second edition of "Principles of Polymer Engineering" brings the field of materials science up-to-date for undergraduates studying materials and polymer science. The opening chapters show why plastics and rubbers have such distinctive properties and how they are affected by temperature, strain rate, and other factors. The rest of the book concentrates on how these properties can be exploited to produce functional components within the constraints placed on them. The main changes for the second edition are a new chapter on environmental issues and substantially rewritten sections on yield and fracture and forming. Included is a solutions manual.

Product Description: This manual is the companion guide for Principles of Polymer Engineering, a text whose case studies and examples met with widespread approval from polymer science educators. The manual provides complete solutions to all of the problems in the main text, helping professors and students alike to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of instruction...read more