Handbook of Plastics Testing and Failure Analysis
Preface
PREFACE TO THE 3rd EDITION
During the period that elapsed between the second edition and the date of writing of this
third edition, the author shifted his career from a full-time molder to a full-time Consultant
/Expert witness/Educator. The opportunity existed for analyzing numerous plastic-part-related
premature failures. Failure analysis and testing go together. In order to analyze
the failure, it is often necessary to conduct tests. In this third edition, therefore, the decision
was made to expand the current chapter on failure analysis substantially and alter the
title of the book to Handbook of Testing and Failure Analysis to reflect the change
appropriately.
Existing books and literature on the subject of failure analysis are too complex, too
detailed, sometimes difficult to understand, and more suitable to the persons well-versed
in polymer chemistry and physics. This book attempts to simplify a rather difficult subject
of failure analysis by focusing on four major types of failures and key reasons behind
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