Description: Choose the right plastics for your designs--in seconds. Now you can design better and faster--and take advantage of new stronger, cheaper materials--with the only comprehensive source of at-a-glance plastics design data available. Whether you're designing automotive parts, computer equipment, consumer electronics or any number of other types of products, the Third Edition of Charles A. Harper's Handbook of Plastics, Elastomers, and Composites gives you everything you need to choose the right plastic materials--and use them more effectively and efficiently. You get the very latest property and performance data, application guidelines, costs, joining techniques, fabrication method trade-offs and processing procedures for: laminates and reinforced plastic materials; protective and decorative coatings; advanced composite materials; liquid and low-pressure resin systems; thermoplastic elastomers.

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