Failure of Plastics and Rubber Products: Causes, Effects and Case Studies Involving Degradation

A fascinating insight into why polymer products fail, and how we can learn from the mistakes of the past. This book describes the various mechanisms of polymer degradation, and illustrates each failure mechanism with a number of case studies. This book was written with the support of the UK Department of Trade and Industry. It is intended to raise awareness of the causes and consequences of polymer product failures, in order to reduce the future incidences of such failures, and their considerable costs to industry.