- Title:
- Structural Design with Plastics
- Object name(s):
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Brief description:
- Benjamin, B. S., 1969. Structural Design with Plastics. Van Nostrand Reinhold. This book covers the following: 1. Plastics as a Structural Material - 1. 1 Introduction - 1. 2 Plastics suitable for structural applications - 1. 3 The general mechanical behaviour of plastics - 1. 4 The fire resistance of plastics - 1. 5 Design with plastics - 2. Reinforced Plastics - 2. 1 Reinforcing materials - 2. 2 Manufacturing processes for reinforced plastics - 2. 3 Design recommendations for the choice of a process - 2. 4 Glass fiber reinforced polyester - 2. 5 Jute fiber reinforces polyester - 2. 6 Asbestos reinforced polyester - 2. 7 Glass fibre reinforced epoxy laminates - 2. 8 Phenolic - melamine and silicone resin laminates - 2. 9 Reinforced thermoplastics - 3. Low density core materials - 3. 1 Introduction - 3. 2 Rigid polyurethane foam - 3. 3 Expanded polystyrene - 3. 4 Expanded polyvinylchloride - 3. 5 Phenolic foam - 3. 6 Foamed glass - 3. 7 Poison's ratio of low density core materials - 3. 8 Reinforced plastics honeycomb core - 4. Sandwich Construction - 4. 1 Introduction - 4. 2 Sandwich behaviour under transverse loading - 4. 3 Sandwich failure under compressive end tools - 4. 4 Rectangular sandwich panel under transvers loading - 4. 5 Buckling of a rectangular sandwich panel under compressive end loads - 5. Architectural forms for use with plastics - 5. 1 Introduction - 5. 2 Folded plate structures - 5. 3 Shell structures - 5. 4 Stressed skin systems - 5. 5 Architectural forms for use in space - 6. The Analysis of Folded Plate Structures in Plastics - 6. 1 Existing methods for the analysis of folded plates - 6. 2 A modified approach to the analysis of folded plate structures in plastics - 7. Prismatic Folded Plate Structures - 7. 1 The Influence of connections - 7. 2 The analysis of an internal unit - 7. 3 Analysis of the external unit - 8. Composite Folded Plate Structures - 8. 1 The composite folded plate portal flame - 8. 2 The composite folded plate barrel unit - 8. 3 The analysis of the barrel vault - 8. 4 Design and testing of a prototype composite folded plate barrel vault of sandwich construction - 9. Shell Structures - 9. 1 Shell structures in plastics - 9. 2 Design of a GRP dome of single skin construction - 10. Stressed Skin Structures - 10. 1 Skeleton analysis - 10. 2 Flat prismatic plates under axial compression - 10. 3 Angle sections under axial compression - 10. 4 Effect of variation of the angle of bend - 10. 5 Effect of material properties - 10. 6 Prismatic folded plates - 10. 7 Non-prismatic folded plates - 10. 8 Stiffness method of analysis - 10. 9 Finite elements method - 11. Miscellaneous Structures - 11. 1 Air inflated structures - 11. 2 Plastics radomes - 11. 3 Tensioned structures - 11. 4 Prefabricated low cost housing
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0152
- Object production date:
- 1969
- Object production organisation:
- Van Nostrand Reinhold
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Benjamin, Bezaleel Solomon
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- USA
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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