This book is a step-by-step guide to die design for tubes and pipes. It offers unique coverage of the topic from a highly practical perspective. Written for plastics processing and design engineers, technical and manufacturing managers, die designers and manufacturers. This comprehensive guide includes worked examples to illustrate problem solving and detailed drawings of complete dies for various applications. It covers mono- and multilayers pipes, as well as important melt flow variables (e.g., pressure drop, shear stress, shear rate, temperature variations, distribution variations) of key materials determined using FEM software.

Author: Sushil Kainth
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hanser Publications
Published: 11/06/2017
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.7lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781569906729

About the Author
Kainth, Sushil: - Sushil Kainth runs an extrusion die design company that he established in 1995, and has over 50 years of experience in the plastics processing industry. He has designed and manufactured over 500 dies and tools for industries varying from medical tubing to water, gas, and petroleum pipes. Coextrusion dies have been his specialty for the last 20 years.