Polymeric Thermosetting Compounds

Engineering design teams sometimes have need of a material that may not exist because the combination of required properties is difficult to achieve. One solution is to develop a new material having the required set of properties needed in the application. During his 40-year career, author Ralph Hermansen has successfully worked on many such problems. In this book he presents twenty of those design problems and the solutions, which resulted in patents and spin-off applications. He draws on his years of hands-on experience to cover polymeric compounds such as coatings, adhesives, encapsulants, transparent plastics, and others.