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The Need for More Descriptive and Meaningful Physical Data on Plastic Materials Pages: 8 Published: Jan 1981
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View License Agreement During the past few years, plastics have become the major structural materials for most of the new small electrical appliance products. Thus, when the decision is made to develop a new product, a plastics material screening process will be followed, where a list of material performance requirements (processing included) will be generated, based on the expected product performance, and then matched with currently available commercial grades of plastics. Unfortunately the plastic material physical data furnished by the supplier are not adequate. They are either too general, use wrong sample preparation method, or do not give a meaningful description of the plastic material properties from processing to end-product performance. The new General Electric plastic iron and drip coffeemaker products are two typical examples which are used to illustrate that there is a definite need for making available to the end user more descriptive and meaningful physical performance data. | ||
