Plastics, Elastomers and Polymers Reference Materials

Description: The objective of this study was to determine the basic utility of 3M Performance Additives supplied iM30K as filler in Dyneon™ Fluoroelastomer (FKM). A determination of both positive and ...

Description: For nearly 50, years, Makrolon® polycarbonate has been chosen for medical applications because of its excellent combination of properties including transparency, outstanding toughness, ...

Description: Polycorp Ltd. says its long-standing products and services drive the company's success. A successor to BFGoodrich Engineered Products of Canada, Polycorp acquired the company's assets in 1996. Today, ...

Description: Biofuels - bioethanol, biobutanol and biodiesel - are becoming a significant reality in the transportation fuels landscape in the USA and North America, as well as Europe, South America and the ...

Description: While not the part of the specification itself, the following chart presents the assigned material prefix letters and the polymer such prefix would normally call out. ...

Description: Many factors affect the service temperature of elastomers. This chart is to be used as a guide only. Contact our technical department for specific requirements. ...

Description: Based on ISO recommendation R1629 and ASTM D 1418 ...

Description: ATOFINA Petrochemicals, Inc. is committed to a continuous progress initiative that focuses on streamlining operations and enhancing performance at all levels of the company. In addition, the ...

Description: 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 ...

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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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™ ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: The processing considerations and potential applications for two different semicrystalline engineering polymers in extrusion are described. Specifically, they include Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) and ...

Description: 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. ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: Many electrical, automotive, industrial and other applications call for costeffective materials with superior mechanical and electrical performance at elevated temperatures. During the past ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: Polymer selection helps automotive fuel-system components survive for the life of the vehicle. ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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, ...

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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...