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Guide to Ultrasonic Plastic Assembly
From: DukaneDescription: Ultrasonic plastics assembly is the joining or reforming of thermoplastics through the use of heat generated from high frequency mechanical motion. It is accomplished by converting electrical energy ...
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Magnaplate Goes Against The Grain To Save Mars Exploration Project
Description: At the end of August, Mars, the fourth rock from the sun, was less than 35 million miles away from the Earth causing scientists and enthusiastic amateurs to stay up all night for a glimpse of the red ...
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A Space Age FDA/USDA Compliant Metal Coating Extends Release Properties Of Multi-Metal Chocolate Extruders From 40 Hours To More Than Two Years
Description: If the operation of a real-life candy processing facility were as delightful and exciting as that run by the fictional hero Willy Wonka, there would be little need for magazines such as Food ...
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Audio Component Pioneer Redesigns Efficiency
Description: Huntington Indiana's Pyle Industries has long been a pioneer in the development and manufacture of "Made in the U.S.A." sound systems for cars, trucks and the home. The first mobile high-power woofers ...
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High-Performance Thermoplastics for Sensors and Actuators Under the Hood
Description: Sensors and actuators used in the engine compartment are being exposed to higher temperatures, more aggressive media and more extreme thermomechanical loads than ever before. These combined stresses ...
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Metal Coating Technologies Provide Critical Edge For Dry Bulk Solids Handling Leader
Description: Over the past forty years, Acrison has established itself as an industry leading authority in dry bulk solids handling, specifically the precision metering of dry solid ingredients by volume or weight ...
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Space Age Coatings Increase Service Life Of Pumps Operating In
Description: The high silt and gravel content of local water wells in parts of Illinois and Wisconsin causes scouring, corrosion and shortened lives for the pumps operating in those wells. However, the application ...
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Space-Age Enhancement Coating Solves Aluminum Longeron Failures On T-38 Jets
Description: First flown in 1959, the Northrop T-38 Talon jet trainer is one of the true "workhouses" of the United States Air Force. Over 60,000 pilots have learned supersonic techniques, aerobatics, formation, ...
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Surface Enhancements Eliminate ESD Damage During Operation of State-of-the-Art I.C. Handlers
Description: When San Jose California's Exatron engineered their latest generation of integrated circuit (I.C.) handling equipment, protection from damage due to electro-static discharge (ESD) was a top priority. ...
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When Adhesives Stick Too Well
Description: If you work with calendar rolls, adhesive pumps, mixing kettles, mixer blades, rolls, rails, conveyors, frames, wheels, gears, dispensers, sealers, extruders, testers, applicators or a whole host of ...
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Worcester Controls Corp. Eliminates Galling and Boosts Ball Valve Life 50% With Mirror-Smooth Coating
Description: For more than four decades, Worcester Controls Corporation has been on the leading edge of ball valve and flow control technology. The Marlborough (Mass.) company has always prided itself on making ...
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High-Tech, Space-Age Metal Surface Enhancement Coating Solves Wear and Release Problems for Pine Instrument Company's Gyratory Compaction Asphalt Testers
Description: High-Tech, Space-Age Metal Surface Enhancement Coating Solves Wear and Release Problems for Pine Instrument Company's Gyratory Compaction Asphalt Testers The development of computer-controlled asphalt ...
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Ultra-Thin, Ultra-Hard, Surface Enhancement Applied On International Space Station's Quick Disconnect Couplings Eliminates Wear, Leaks, and Contamination
Description: Ultra-Thin, Ultra-Hard, Surface Enhancement Applied On International Space Station's Quick Disconnect Couplings Eliminates Wear, Leaks, and Contamination In the harsh vacuum and low temperatures of ...
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Automotive Fatigue Life and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of a Matrix Polymer
Description: Many exterior components on modern automobiles are fabricated from advanced polymer and composite materials. Knowledge of the strength and durability of these raw materials is becoming increasingly ...
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Effects of Chlorinated Water on Plastic-Based Water Delivery Systems (.pdf)
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: Chlorinated water remains one of the most significant advancements in public health. This practice dramatically improves our quality of life by giving us the assurance that we get clean, safe drinking ...
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Impact of Common Disinfection Practices on Sulfone Polymer Plumbing Fittings (.pdf)
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: Solvay Advanced Polymers supplies high-performance sulphone polymers that are used in water handling devices. These include UDEL® polysulfone, RADEL® R polyphenyl-sulfone and ACUDEL™ ...
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LTHS of Sulfone-Based Polymers (.pdf)
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: Plastic piping systems for both residential and commercial plumbing are becoming much more prevalent because of their outstanding corrosion resistance and ability to eliminate potential contamination ...
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Resistance of Unfilled Engineering Polymers to Prolonged Hot Water Exposure (.pdf)
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: When selecting materials for use in hot water plumbing systems, it is important to consider how the physical and mechanical properties of the various thermoplastic resins are affected by exposure to ...
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Adhesion, Adhesion Failure, and BONDiT
From: Reltek LLCDescription: Bonding of organic polymers to inorganic surfaces is hardly new technology. The Sumerians and Babylonians used asphalt and pitch for floor covering and paving. Naturally occurring polymers were used ...
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3 Part Specifications for Sierra Premium Panels
From: Nichiha USA, Inc.Description: Furnish and install Nichiha Sierra Premium fiber cement panels where shown on drawings or specified herein. ...
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Brick Installation
From: Nichiha USA, Inc.Description: Guide for installing brick stones. ...
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Sierra Premium Shake Installation
From: Nichiha USA, Inc.Description: Nichiha Sierra Premium™ panels (hereafter called "the panels") must be stored flat and kept dry before being installed. On site it is recommended that you carry the panels by the edges for ...
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Abrasive Filament Brush Deburring of Powdered Metal Components
From: Abtex CorporationDescription: The deburring of PM parts is commonly performed in a batch process. This typically involves loading a quantity of parts into a vibratory bowl filled with abrasive media. The vibration of the bowl ...
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The Right Compound
From: Lauren Manufacturing Co.Description: Often, design engineers do not realize how critical the initial compound is to the entire design process. Change a little on the accelerators or age resistors, and your finished compound meets or ...
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Capitalizing on Plastics
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: When it comes to using plastics in high-load applications, the appliance industry is beginning to follow the trend realized several years ago by automobile manufacturers. Carmakers today use plastics ...
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Engineering Polymers In Nonwovens, Fibers And Other Extruded Substrates
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: The processing considerations and potential applications for two different semicrystalline engineering polymers in extrusion are described. Specifically, they include Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) and ...
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Exploiting the Potential of Plastics Gears
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Plastic gears are now being used in drives of higher power and higher precision than in the past. They afford appliance designers dramatic opportunities to reduce drive cost, noise and weight. ...
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Fuel Resistant Plastics
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Without plastics, automakers would have been hard pressed to develop fuel systems that simultaneously withstand aggressive fuels, reduce vehicle weight, aid impact resistance, and enable complex ...
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Generation of Master Curves for Cured Rubber
Description: The Williams, Landel & Ferry model (WLF) uses time-temperature superposition to generate master curves that predict the dynamic behavior of materials at frequencies outside the range of practical ...
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High Impact Strength Reinforced Polyester Engineering Resins for Automotive Applications
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Engineering plastics have been used extensively in automobiles in a variety of applications such as grille opening retainers, bumpers and decorative panels. Recently, engineering plastics are also ...
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How High Performance Liquid Crystal Polymers Cut the Cost of Precision Medical Parts
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: With liquid crystal polymers (LCPs), the medical device designer can improve part economics as well as performance and processing compared with metals and other plastic materials. LCPs eliminate ...
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Improving Appliances with Plastic Gears
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: For the appliance engineer, plastic gears are a powerful means to cut cost, weight, noise and wear. They also open new opportunities for smaller, more efficient drives. What are the payoffs when using ...
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Lasermarkable Engineering Resins
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Over a quarter century ago, lasers were thought of as "tools of destruction." From cutting through steel to use as weapons, lasers were powerful devices and thought to only be used that way. Of course ...
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Making Composites Competitive
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: New technologies to bond materials that could not previously be joined together, to increase the strength of composite bonds and to develop nanocomposites are ushering in a new era of composite ...
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Making Sense of High-Temperature Thermoplastics
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Many electrical, automotive, industrial and other applications call for costeffective materials with superior mechanical and electrical performance at elevated temperatures. During the past ...
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Plastics and Aggressive Fuels - 5,000 Hour Study
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Auto fuel systems, long challenging environments for engineering thermoplastics, became more so during the past decade as new fuels were introduced and fuel temperatures rose. The demands on plastics ...
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Plastics for the Long Haul
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Polymer selection helps automotive fuel-system components survive for the life of the vehicle. ...
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Through the Microscope Fracture Analysis of Long-Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Classic fracture analysis of unfilled plastics has welldefined and well-documented methods for determining what happened to broken parts. However, introducing long-fibers into the picture obscures ...
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Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE)
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT P O LYETHYLENE (UHMWPE) is a line a r, low-pre s s u re, Ziegler-type catalyst, polyethylene resin. Its weight-average molecular weight of 4 X 106 is appro x i m a t e l y ...
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Unfilled Liquid Crystal Polymers
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: Unfilled (neat) liquid crystal polymers (LCP) have excellent thermal and dimensional stability, as well as high rigidity, strength, and chemical resistance. LCP parts can be molded with great ...
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Using and Specifying Plastic Gears
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: For mechanical engineers, plastic gears are a powerful means of cutting drive-cost, weight, noise and wear. Plastic gears also open new opportunities for smaller, more efficient transmissions in many ...
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Introduction To Color Theory
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: People usually associate color with physical objects that are viewed in sharp contrast to their surroundings: be it a beautiful flower arrangement, or a colorful spinnaker on a sailboat against a ...
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Switching From Metals To Plastics
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: The use of plastics in place of metals is helping many manufacturers maintain profit margins as costs and competition increase. These manufacturers are finding that the switch also improves products, ...
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Metal Measurement Conversion Utility
Description: This utility gives the user the ability to convert Length, Area, Volume, Weight and temperature into the various measurement systems from around the world. From metric to English measurements and also ...
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SteeLog® - A Metallurgical Dictionary
Description: SteeLog is a metallurgical dictionary on more than 5,000 terms used in the metals and metalworking industries. You may search for a particular term or click on a letter of the alphabet to view all the ...
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The Impact of Conductor Surface Profile (Rrms) on Total Circuit Attenuation in Microstrip and Stripline
From: TaconicDescription: Transmission line attenuation is known to be influenced by conductor surface profile (Rrms), an effect that worsens as frequency increases. Using microstrip transmission lines, copper conductive ...
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Injection Molding Case Study
From: Control Plastics, Inc.Description: We create a case study for every new project. In this example the critical areas were: nominal wall thickness, boss wall stock thickness relative to nominal wall thickness, potential sinks from ...
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Alloy
Description: Alloy 42 is a family of nickel iron alloys, suitable for joining to ceramic chips in electronic circuits, as well as glass-to-metal joining applications such as leaded windows and cathode tubes. It is ...
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Aluminum
Description: Aluminum alloys are materials made up of two or more metals. They are designed with specific purposes in mind, usually by industries that have requirements for their components. Some alloys were ...
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Ballistic Alloys & Ballistic Steel
Description: To find the best alloys for use in ballistic applications, there is no better resource than All Metals & Forge. All Metals & Forge is the metals industry's leading supplier of high quality steel ...
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Corrosion Resistant Alloys, Metals & Steel
Description: As the chromium content rises in any stainless steel, so does its resistance to corrosion. Of course, getting the proper mix of ingredients is only one small part of forging truly corrosion-resistant ...
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Custon 450 & Custom Alloy
Description: When austenitics aren't strong enough and martensitics do not provide enough corrosion resistance, there is custom 450 steel. This powerful stainless steel splits the difference between the two, ...
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Domestic Steel Industry Update
Description: Based on our latest steel distributor survery, overall service center order activity in the month of November fell 1.4% on a year over year basis compared to 2.2% growth in October. On a sequential ...
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Forge Shop, Forged Metal, Forged Products Etc.
Description: A good forge shop should be able to get you every possible shape of all the stainless steel varieties you need. That means more than just the standard forms that so many shops offer nowadays--plates, ...
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Hallestoy, Hallestoy B, Hallestoy C Etc.
Description: Many nickel-based steel alloys exhibit high resistance to corrosion, and Hastelloy is one of the best. In addition to outstanding resistance to all manner of pitting and cracking, parts made of this ...
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Haynes 188, Haynes 25 & Haynes Alloys
Description: High temperature strength and exceptional corrosion resistance make Haynes® 188 cobalt steel is a top choice for applications in gas turbines and other high-temp environments. The addition of ...
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High Nickel Alloys, High Temp Alloy Suppliers, High Temperature Alloys Etc.
Description: High nickel alloys tend to be comprised almost entirely of nickel, such as the wrought grades Nickel 200 and 201, each of which is over 99 percent pure. Alloys such as these tend to be resistant to ...
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Incolov, Incolov 800 & Incolov 825
Description: Incoloy alloys, including Incoloy 800 and Incoloy 825, are highly sought after due to their ability to resist both oxidization and carbonization in high-temperature settings. The majority of Incoloy ...
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Inconel
Description: Inconel alloys are generally known for their resistance to oxidation and their ability to maintain their structural integrity in high temperature atmospheres. There are several Inconel alloys that are ...
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Invar
Description: Invar alloys are widely known and utilized because they exhibit a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) that is close to zero. The fact that Invar maintains this low CTE over room temperature has ...
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Magnesium
Description: Magnesium is the lightest of the commonly used metals. Its versatility and abundance make it one of the most popular metals, and variations of magnesium alloys are used in almost every major industry ...
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Maraging
Description: Maraging 250 is an 18 percent nickel steel that has been strengthened with cobalt. Maraging 250, like all maraging steels, goes through an aging process that forces the metal to cool from its molten ...
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March Steel Distributor Survey Results (pdf)
Description: Overall end market activity in March continues to be lackluster, averaging 0.8% growth over the same quarter last year compared to 1% in February and .4% in January. On a sequential basis, demand ...
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Metal Forging, Metal Mu Distributors & Metal Service Center
Description: The majority of leading metals distributors around the world work with an inventory of both common and hard-to-find metals and alloys. Most of these companies have a selection of shapes and sizes ...
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Molybdenum Alloys & Molybdenum Steel
Description: Molybdenum is generally alloying element with steel in order to make that steel stronger. In fact, when molybdenum is added to even small steel concentrations, the result is an ultra-high-strength ...
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Monel
Description: Companies in the marine, oil, and chemical processing industries use a great deal of Monel in their machinery. Monel is a nickel alloy, prized for its strength and ability to resist corrosion. Its ...
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Nickel
Description: Nickel 200 is one of the many specialty metals in stock at All Metals & Forge. It is available from their steel service center in over a dozen pre-cut shapes, with each shape offered in a number of ...
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Nimonic, Nimonic 75 & Nimonic 90
Description: The nickel-chromium alloy Nimonic is offered in a couple of different grades from All Metals & Forge. Unlike some of their competitors, All Metal & Forge is more than willing to special order grades ...
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Nitralloy, Nitralloy 135 & Nitralloy 135m
Description: All Metals & Forge carries two types of Nitralloy: Nitralloy 135 and Nitralloy 135m. Nitralloys are a group of metals that were specifically designed for a hardening process called "nitriding." This ...
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Specialty Stainless Steel & Specialty Steel Products
Description: All Metals & Forge is a leading supplier of specialty stainless steel products and services to companies in the aerospace, oil, chemical, defense, and metalworking industries (among others). They hold ...
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Steel
Description: All Metals & Forge is a leader in the steel alloy supply industry. Their excellent products and services have garnered them ISO9001:2000 and AS9100 certification, as well as a stellar reputation with ...
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Tensile Strength & Tensile Strength of Steel
Description: The term tensile strength refers to the amount of tensile (stretching) stress a material can withstand before breaking or failing. The ultimate tensile strength of a material is calculated by dividing ...
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Titanium
Description: All Metals & Forge (AM&F) is a supplier of titanium alloys to industries around the globe. Through its open die forging facilities, AM&F supplies titanium flat bars and blocks with maximum widths of ...
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Tool Steel & Tool Steel Supplier
Description: As the name implies, tool steel refers to a number of different high speed, carbon, and alloy steels that are used to make tools. Desirable features in tool steel include toughness, wear resistance, ...
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Tungsten
Description: Tungsten is a heavy metal that can be classified as a refractory metal, i.e., one with a high melting point. Refractory metals can be useful for their strength at high temperatures and their ...
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Aerospace
Description: Specialized alloys make it possible for the aerospace industry to produce high-performance parts such as jet engine and airframes. These components must be able to withstand high pressure, intense ...
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Designing with Plastics: Good, Fast, or Cheap - Pick Two
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: The pressure on design engineers to make the right decisions on prototyping is more important today than ever because of speed-to-market requirements, increasing cost restraints, and the escalating ...
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and Often Out of Order: The Problems with Protecting Wastewater Treatment Plants
From: Sauereisen, Inc.
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Avoiding Molding Pitfalls
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: The road to a plastic part that functions as designed is paved with good intentions. Best-laid plans can be disrupted by failure to understand unique problems presented by the injection molding ...
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High-Temperature Plastics: Can They Really Take the Heat?
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: One of the least understood and most erroneously specified areas in the design field is high-temperature plastics. The phrase is widely used but difficult to define. What plastics can genuinely be ...
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How to Manage Stress
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: Design engineers with considerable experience in metals may overlook the effect creep can have on the long-term performance of a plastic part, particularly when applications involve high operating ...
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Steel Weights
Description: This calculator allows you to determine the approximate weight of your raw material using the density factor for the metal family selected and the dimensions of the shape (round bar, flat bar, square ...