Plastic & Composites Welding Handbook

By reviewing and comparing all commercially available welding processes, this authoritative handbook helps the reader select the best suited process for the application and provides an understanding on the limitations and benefits of each process. The focus on practical aspects such as weldability, optimizing part design, troubleshooting and testing makes this book an indispensable tool for everyone involved in welding of plastics. At the same time, it also conveys the basic theoretical principles of plastics welding such as squeeze flow, molecular diffusion, and heat transfer mechanisms.

Each chapter was developed by experts in the field with a wide breadth of information dealing with all welding aspects including materials, process phenomenology, equipment and joint design. The authors also included many application examples to assist engineers in considering the materials and geometries that were successfully used for a specific process and additionally provide references that can be used to gather further information or details.

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