Reliable and meaningful methods of polymer testing are necessary to support the plastics
industry being essential for understanding material and part properties and evaluating
materials for a part design with important implications for product safety as well as
operating conditions and lifetime. This book covers all the most important testing methods
from long-established basic techniques to recent developments including the latest polymer
testing standards. By means of examples for the optimization of materials as well as for the
evaluation of part properties an insight into modern polymer testing and its interdisciplinary
character is provided. Included in this third edition is an all-new chapter on the testing of
polymer films additionally many small updates and corrections have been made throughout the
book.
