Combined with a solid engineering background, this book provides the information and industrial case studies an engineer needs to both make informed decisions about selecting appropriate testing techniques and effectively troubleshoot problems in the field of plastics manufacturing. The scope of this book also includes relevant and concise information for data interpretation using the most important characterization techniques. Contents: Spectroscopy Gas Chromatography and Selective Mass Detection Thermal Properties Melt Rheology Mechanical Properties Permeability Properties Environmental Effects and Aging Electrical, Optical, and Acoustic Properties

María del Pilar Noriega E., PhD, is R&D and Innovation Director at Daabon Group, Santa Marta, Colombia. Until 2019, she was the Director General of the ICIPC (Medellín, Colombia), and from 1997-2012 was Technical Director of the same institute. Tim A. Osswald, Ph.D., is Kuo K. and Cindy F. Wang Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering and Honorary Professor of Plastics Technology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the National University of Colombia. He is the author of many books and book chapters, as well as over 100 papers in the field of plastics technology.

Contents: Spectroscopy Gas Chromatography and Selective Mass Detection Thermal Properties Melt Rheology Mechanical Properties Permeability Properties Environmental Effects and Aging Electrical, Optical, and Acoustic Properties Leseprobe