Rubber Toughened Engineering Plastics [Paperback]

Rubber Toughened Engineering Plastics covers the main physical principles involved in optimum toughening in high temperature engineering plastics and speciality plastics and describes the synthetic strategies used to obtain satisfactorily toughened grades in these materials by control of microstructure. This book will act as a focus for current thought on the principles of rubber toughening and the methods employed for the rubber toughening of major engineering and speciality plastics.Rubber Toughened Engineering Plastics covers the main physical principles involved in optimum toughening in high temperature engineering plastics and speciality plastics and describes the synthetic strategies used to obtain satisfactorily toughened grades in these materials by control of microstructure. This book will act as a focus for current thought on the principles of rubber toughening and the methods employed for the rubber toughening of major engineering and speciality plastics.Failure mechanisms in polymeric materials. Rubber toughening mechanisms in polymeric materials. Fracture and toughening in fibre reinforced polymer composites. Methods of measurement and interpretation of results. Toughening agents for engineering polymers. Rubber modified epoxy resins. Toughened polyamides. Toughened polyesters and polycarbonates. Toughened polysulphones and polyaryletherketones. Toughened polyimides. Index.Springer Book Archives