The Effect of Sterilization Methods on Plastics and Elastomers, 2nd Edition (Pdl Handbook)

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This extensively updated second edition was created for medical device, medical packaging, and food packaging design engineers, material product technical support, and research/development personnel. This comprehensive databook contains important characteristics and properties data on the effects of sterilization methods on plastics and elastomers. It provides a ready reference for comparing materials in the same family as well as materials in different families.

Data is presented on 43 major plastic and elastomer packaging materials, including biodegradable or organic polymers. New to this edition are resin chapters containing textual summary information including: category; general description; applications; resistances to particular sterilization methods; and regulatory status considerations for use in medical devices and medical/food packaging. The resin chapter material supplier trade name product data is presented in graphical and tabular format, with results normalized to SI units, retaining the familiar format of the best selling first edition and allowing easy comparison between materials and test conditions.

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A good book for polymer material selection for medical device.......2007-08-28

This is the only book that deals with different sterilization methods on various polymer materials. Lots of graphs and charts so that one can get the information needed very quickly. An excellent resource to have.

Fluoroelastomers Handbook: The Definitive User's Guide And Databook (Pdl Handbook)

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Fluoroelastomers Handbook: The Definitive User's Guide And Databook (Pdl Handbook)
Albert L. Moore
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Handbook of Engineering Polymeric Materials

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Handbook of Engineering Polymeric Materials
Cheremisinoff
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Presenting practical information on new and conventional polymers and products as alternative materials and end-use applications, this work details technological advancements in high-structure plastics and elastomers, functionalized materials, and their product applications. The book also provides a comparison of manufacturing and processing techniques from around the world. It emphasizes product characterization, performance attributes and structural properties.

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Elastomer Technology Handbook
Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff , and Paul N. Cheremisinoff
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Elastomer Technology Handbook is a major new reference on the science and technology of engineered elastomers. This contributed volume features some of the latest work by international experts in polymer science and rubber technology. Topics covered include theoretical and practical information on characterizing rubbers, designing engineering elastomers for consumer and engineering applications, properties testing, chemical and physical property characterization, polymerization chemistry, rubber processing and fabrication methods, and rheological characterization. The book also highlights both conventional and emerging market applications for synthetic rubber products and emphasizes the latest technology advancements. Elastomer Technology Handbook is a "must have" book for polymer researchers and engineers. It will also benefit anyone involved in the handling, manufacturing, processing, and designing of synthetic rubbers.

Handbook of Plastics, Elastomers, and Composites

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Handbook of Plastics, Elastomers, and Composites

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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.

Handbook of Thermoset Plastics, Second Edition (Plastics & Elastomers)

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Handbook of Thermoset Plastics, Second Edition (Plastics & Elastomers)

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This second edition of this very successful book is a practical, industry-oriented overview of current data, descriptions, technology, and applications of thermoset plastics.

Based on polymer chemistry, the treatments presented are of value both to professionals and those new to the field. The consistent thread, throughout every chapter, is that thermoset plastics are materials of construction, subject to strengths and weaknesses, as well as proper use and misuse. The data and descriptions presented are for engineers, scientists, technicians, and students who must routinely form judgments and take action on the basis of informal analysis. The book is intended to assist the reader in making the right decisions and taking the correct actions in the use of thermoset plastics.

The introductory material remains essentially unchanged because the concepts are fundamental to the technology. The value to the new engineer, technician, or scientist continues to be a summarial overview, a place to get started. To those practicing the trade, the new information will augment that which is known and offer fresh concepts for consideration for solutions to the next problem or design.

The issuance of a new edition of a technical reference text usually signifies that the material in the book has provided repeated value-added information to the reader/buyer. It is a benchmark for the editors, authors, and contributors that they in fact participated in a significant way to the progress of science, engineering, and technology.

The broad classifications of plastics - general purpose, engineering, and specialty - applies to thermosets as well as thermoplastics. General purpose thermosets are characterized by average (for thermosets) mechanical properties, lower resistance to temperature, higher coefficients of expansion, and low cost commodity-like production and sales (tons/year). Engineering thermosets have higher mechanical properties and temperature resistance and they are perceived to be more durable. They are more expensive with a moder- ate production volume (pounds/year). Specialty thermosets are useful because of one or more highly specific and unusual property which offsets any lack of other "good" properties. They are usually very expensive and are produced in relatively small quantities (pounds/batch). Overlapping between the three categories often occurs - a general purpose phenolic is often competitive with an engineering polyimide.

Handbook of Elastomers: New Developments and Technology (Plastics Engineering Series, No 19)

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Handbook of Elastomers: New Developments and Technology (Plastics Engineering Series, No 19)
Anil K. Bhowmick
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Systematically addressing the manufacturing techniques, properties, processing, and applications of rubbers and rubber-like materials, Handbook of Elastomers provides authoritative information on natural rubbers, synthetic rubbers, liquid rubbers, powdered rubbers, rubber blends, thermoplastic elastomers, and rubber-based compostites;offering solutions to many practical problems encountered with rubber materials.

The Effect of UV Light and Weather: On Plastics and Elastomers, 2nd Edition (Pdl Handbook)

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The Effect of UV Light and Weather: On Plastics and Elastomers, 2nd Edition (Pdl Handbook)
Liesl K. Massey
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This extensively updated, comprehensive databook was created for design and application engineers, scientists, and material producer technical support and research and development personnel. Important weathering characteristics and material properties of plastics and elastomers are presented in discussion, tabular and graphical sections. It provides a ready reference for comparing materials in the same family as well as materials in different families.

Data are presented on 80 major plastic and elastomer materials, including biodegradable or organic polymers. New to this edition, the resin chapters each contain textual summary information including category, general description, and weathering properties detailing information of the material's susceptibility or immunity to weathering including discussion of test results. Extensive references are provided. The resin chapter material supplier trade name product data are presented in graphical and tabular format, with results normalized to SI units, retaining the familiar format of the 1st edition and allowing easy comparison between materials and test conditions.

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Chemical Resistance CD-ROM: Rubbers, Thermoplastics, Thermoplastic Elastomers, and Thermosets (PDl Handbook/CD Series)
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All the data in the three volume Chemical Resistance set is available on CD for instant access to the world's largest compilation of resistance data. Includes textual, single point, and multipoint data (as engineering graphs & tables); detailed descriptions using uniform technology, sample preparation, test methods, test conditions.

Corrosion of Polymers and Elastomers (Corrosion Engineering Handbook, Second Edition)

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Corrosion of Polymers and Elastomers (Corrosion Engineering Handbook, Second Edition)
P.E., Philip A. Schweitzer
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Corrosion of Polymers and Elastomers provides a detailed examination of the corrosive effects of thermoplastic polymers, thermoset polymers, and elastomeric materials. The book is perfectly suited for specialists interested in the corrosion resistance and mechanisms of these materials. Following a general introduction to the composition, properties, and applications of polymers, the book focuses on the effects of chemical corrosion caused by changes in temperature, moisture, and other corrodents. Organized by material type, the chapters cover each material's ability to withstand sun, weather, and ozone as well as its chemical resistance and typical applications. The book also includes compatibility tables for each of the materials and compares the corrosion resistance of selected elastomers.

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Not for the timid, the faint-hearted or the cowardly.......2007-07-31

This review is based on the online version of the book, which I am relying on, pending the forthcoming 8th edition.

This is the kind of book that almost all reviewers give either five stars or one. I'm the first 3-star reviewer. It worked, right? You were curious enough to read this review out of the dozens of others.

Whether you find it persuasive or not, there can be no disagreement that this book by Dr Walt Brown (PhD MIT (Mechanical Engineering), Air Force Academy tenured professor (retired), Air Force Colonel (ret.), studied geology at Arizona State University), presents a theory which is stunning in the extent of its scope and the observed natural phenomena that it seeks to explain: from molten rock in the very depths of the earth to comets that traverse the far reaches of the solar system. One gets the distinct impression that Hydroplate Theory did not begin as an attempt to explain such a vast range of physical phenomena, but that it developed to do so, as one set of results connected with other observations and suggested new avenues of explanatory power.

Hydroplate Theory begins by postulating a set of initial conditions -- a vast subterranean water chamber sealed deep beneath a rock crust -- in a recently created earth. These set of initial conditions are not plucked from the blue, but are prompted by and consistent with a number of Biblical passages (obviously including the early chapters of Genesis, but also the Psalms and 2 Peter). Dr Brown is certainly not ashamed of his Christian faith. But as a scientific theory, Hydroplate Theory should stand or fall on its faithfulness to known physical laws (eg: conservation of matter-energy, the law of gravity, etc, etc) and its consistency with observed experimental and natural phenomena.

At this point, therefore, readers who do not accept the truth claims of the Bible can suspend their judgement, accept the posited initial conditions for the sake of exploring the argument as a 'what if' chain of physical reasoning. Those who have grown up on far-out science fiction have no excuse for being unable to exercise their mind's imagination in this way.

But this is not presented as a work of science fiction. On the contrary, Hydroplate Theory is a thoroughly serious effort to see what would happen if the laws of physics are applied to the set of initial conditions defined. The chain of events described is extremely dramatic. Super-critical subterranean fluid released in supersonic jets with sufficient energy and velocity to launch asteroids and comets, rapidly sliding continent-scale hydroplates, and rock buckling rapidly to create present-day mountains, is certainly not a scenario for the faint-hearted! The natural initial reaction of most readers -- both evolutionist sceptics and professing Christians encountering this for the first time -- is to laugh at the apparent absurdity and throw the book away.

But readers with a solid technical background who resist this impulse will be rewarded by being challenged to wrestle with some heavy-duty (well beyond industrial strength) engineering physics. To succeed, each individual component of Hydroplate Theory needs firstly to be shown to be consistent with known physical laws and secondly to be shown to be consistent with observed phenomena, and such laboratory or field scale experiments as it is possible to undertake. Some such experiments are described in the book. Numerous observed natural phenomena are referenced in support of the theory and the ability or inability of competing theories to explain them are compared. Particularly interesting in this respect are a number of tables with each row representing an observed phenomena and each column a competing theory.

The presentation of Hydroplate Theory is in "Part II: Fountains of the Great Deep." It brings all of the engineering sciences into play: fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, mechanics of materials, material science and chemistry, as well as celestial mechanics. Key numbers (inputs to and results from calculations) and diagrams are provided in the book. But many, if not most, of the detailed technical physics calculations necessary to confirm or deny the theoretical viability of the theory are left to the reader to undertake. Mechanical engineers, probably chemical engineers, maybe civil engineers, and capable physicists should be capable of undertaking such calculations. The book should be accepted as a genuine challenge by such readers.

Some readers may have prior assumptions (eg: the age of the earth or disbelief in the existence of the Creator) that act as a barrier to their acceptance of the initial conditions required for the Hydroplate Theory, even merely for the sake of making the calculations or following the reasoning presented on a 'what if' basis. "Part I: The Scientific Case for Creation" would seem to be intended for such readers. It presents very briefly, mostly in summary overview fashion, a compendium of grounds for rejecting evolutionary hypotheses. It is systematically arranged in three categories: the biosphere (the life sciences), the cosmos beyond the biosphere (the astronomical and physical sciences) and the realm below the biosphere (the earth sciences). Based on a once-through reading of Part I, a sceptical reader may not be persuaded, right there and then, to reject the wide gamut of evolutionary theories from the big bang to human evolution. However, it is sufficiently thorough and comprehensive to warrant a good faith reading of Part II, at least on the basis of 'what if' acceptance of the initial conditions.

Part III contains answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

This is a book for a general audience, characterised by approachable visualisations that most people can readily grasp to explain established physical phenomena. Sceptics who approach it in good faith and with an open mind will find plenty of material of both a theoretical and observational nature to challenge their explanations. Hydroplate Theory, first published in 1980 and refined and updated since, strikes this reviewer as the most robust candidate for a Young Earth Creationist (YEC) theoretical model of Creation, pre-Flood and post-Flood natural history consistent with (a) the Biblical account, (b) natural and experimental observed phenomena and (c) known physcial laws. But it is probably fair to say that it has not (or at least not yet) become THE standard YEC account. Nevertheless, YECs are likely to find it strengthens their views, while surprising them in a number of areas and prompting re-evaluation of some views.

As Dr Brown points out, multiple, parallel working hypotheses are a better basis for scientific inquiry than blind adherence to one single hypothesis or set of starting assumptions.

It's each individual's own responsibility to WEIGH THE EVIDENCE according to their own ability and understanding.

Research of the First Order..........2007-07-08

This is a remarkable book and truly as the subtitle suggests, "Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood." In the form of a textbook, with pictures and graphs that for the most part complement the text. It can be read out of chapter sequence without a problem and is chock-full of bibliography and footnotes. I appreciated, as a teacher, how Dr. Brown lays out the opposing views and is not squeamish in pointing out the small points in the Hydroplate Theory that are weak as he outlines all the relevant theories in chart form in some chapters. It's split into three parts: The Scientific Case for Creation, Fountains of the Deep (where the Hydroplate Theory is summarized along with Origins of Ocean Trenches, Liquefaction, Origin of Limestone, Frozen Mammoths, Origin of Comets, Asteroids and Meteorids), and the third part is Frequently Asked Questions containing 28 topics including "How can the study of Creation be scientific" and "How accurate is Radiocarbon Dating" (fascinating in it's own right)... in a final section called Technical Notes, there are topics that are extremely technical: "How long would it take the moon to recede from Earth to its present position?"; "How much dust and meteoritic debris should the moon have if it is 4.6 million years old?"; "Does subduction really occur?"; and "...Can mountains buckle?"; "Energy in Subterranean Water"; "Melting the Inner Earth".

I happened to discover the Hydroplate Theory during a session at a Homeschooling Conference in Boston this Spring and was shocked that I'd never heard of it before. It's incredible in it's erudition... Dr. Brown has most definitely thought this theory out, sideways and backways. It's incredible how it explains nearly all known geologic, atmospheric and solar system phenomena, plausibly and beyond a reasonable doubt.

Even though a new 8th edition is scheduled for next summer, according to Dr. Brown's website, this 7th edition is TOO IMPORTANT to not get now if you're at all interested in learning something new and amazing. I intend to get the 8th edition as well when it arrives.

My only complaint is the price... it's worth it don't get me wrong, but it might find a larger audience if there was a trade paperback edition available instead of only the hardcover.

There's only one good thing about this book..........2007-06-19

...and that's the title. I can only hope that people looking for this book will, after doing a title search, come across Brian Fagan and Christopher DeCorse's In the Beginning: an Introduction to Archaeology. By doing so, they might learn what archaeology is all about and how it works. They might also learn about the many methods of dating artifacts and objects, a clearly misunderstood area of this debate. Stratigraphy, dendrochronology, obsidian hydration, carbon-14, potassium-argon, thermoluminescence, fission track, uranium series, electronic spin resonance, and archaeomagnetic dating, just to name a few of the absolute dating methods. Brown clearly has an agenda he is furthering by using data in very manipulative ways. It saddens me that he does this, and that many people are drawn in by this.

Part of a bigger picture.......2007-05-23

The automatic assumption of a evolutionist is that this book is a psuedo-science dimissal of known facts.

However ideology seems to influence Walt Brown less than most scientific avocates who readily dismiss contradictory evidence with out emperical evidence or experimentation.

I would suggest also Thomas Sowell's Vision of the Annointed as a social companion to the mindset of the critics of this excellent work.

Alternative Science: Taking It On the Chin.......2007-05-16

As truly a lay person whose hobby is all things science, a science teacher, and someone with an open mind (who is, above all else--in the interest of full disclosure--a Christian), I find Brown's work to be very intriguing. None of the stories men of learned minds and great pedigree have come up with works to explain the physical realities around us 100%, especially on origins or how geology can help us understand the ancient past. Neither does this one. However, it sure is a serious contender--especially when you realize the length and breadth of the weaknesses of the prevailing theories on the many topics this book addresses. I am not saying Brown's work is super-strong with this statement. I am saying they all are much weaker than we want our explanations and understanding of the world around us to be.

That said, I still really like the work done here. It needs tweaking, and, to Brown's credit, he keeps tweaking it over and over again as the years pass by. The next edition (the 8th) is basically what he has up on the web now, and it addresses some weaknesses previously pointed to.

So, this work is as empirically sound as any science can be when it is hoping to speculate on things long past. Read a book on prevailing theory behind plate tectonics or evolutionary theory or geology, and then read Brown's work. You will find that you have to make many decisions about which aspects of each of them you believe, and it won't be easy. There's a lot to slog through, and he is thorough. Also, he's treading in territory a lot of these other theories avoid, so some of it you have decide to take at face value or not until you can do your own seismic soundings, ice-core drillings, etc. The same goes for all such works.

If you're going to keep reading this long review, I'm going to take a second and make a few things clear about me:

As an Orthodox Christian, I have no theological reason to buy into young-earth Creationism, to feel a need to disprove evolution, or any of this. The Orthodox Church just doesn't care to say much more than however it happened, you can be 100% sure that it was God's work. Theistic evolution, billions of years old earth, you can have me. Just not to the exclusion of my faith. So, I have no theological horse in the race.

I do, however, have a mental need to be convinced of any theory before I might say I believe it. Based on empirical evidence, sound reasoning, a minimum of assumptions, etc. For example, while it would be much easier to just swallow and regurgitate the consensus rulings on the following topics, I can't. I don't buy subduction the more I read about what evidence would be needed to support it. I don't buy any form of macroevolution--but do believe in genetic change over time, even extreme change, as a result of losses in genetic information--not increasing complexity brought about by chance and sorted by any kind of natural selection fairy. I don't feel Genesis forces a young earth on its readers at all. So, don't box me into the Creationist Fool category. Put me in the Fool Who Thinks He Can Reason Out Facts For Himself category. I know "real" scientists hate this Fool even worse than the other kind. This kind of Fool makes them defend their works in the arena of common sense and empirical data from outside the box they might not be aware they have placed themselves. Infuriating.

Anyway, I like the book. I recommend the newest edition. It needs to be put alongside all other serious works on the various topics it addresses and dealt with. There are parts I don't buy. There is a lot I think is compelling and clearly explains things in the natural world that other theories simply don't. For that reason, it should be more food for thought than the object of derision it is. Brown is a pariah in the scientific community. On some fronts, he can be declared fallible. On too much of the backbone of his story about Flood catastrophism, he is simply unanswered.

I find the various published attacks on Brown's work to be very interesting. Google hydroplate theory and read the first 20 pages that come up. Most of it will be highly critical and derisive of his work in tone. Most of it will speak from a set of assumptions you may buy--or you may not. A lot of the criticism is shallow in that it does not address the weaknesses of their theory they champion as pointed out in Brown's work, nor do they attack the greatest strengths of his work. There's nit-picking with extreme prejudice, and most of it loses any umph if you haven't bought what they were selling in the first place. They look no better after reading Brown--or reading their critique of Brown. And Brown doesn't look worse, either. Oddly, they don't defend vigorously against his reasons for why they are wrong. Simply repeating the consenus line does not actually reinforce it. It is very strange. And somewhat telling . . . It's like watching a boxer keep landing light punches that can't win the fight because he's convinced the other guy is going to forfeit any minute--or, more likey, that the fight isn't for a title so it doesn't matter how this one goes. I think it illustrates the depth of the influence of assumptions.

In the end, a great work, warts and all.

IN THE BEGINNING: COMPELLING EVIDENCE FOR CREATION AND THE FLOOD

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