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Design of space powerplants: by D. B. MacKay. 332 pages, diagrams, 6 × 9 in. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963. Price, $15.00

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Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1964
Tongue
English
Weight
251 KB
Volume
278
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-0032

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Thorkildsen, says surprisingly little about the mechanical behavior of plastics, concentrating primarily on metals, which-being purely elastic rather than viscoelastic bodies-are so typical of plastics. In fact, a major weakness of the book is the poor treatment of the subject of rheology, so important to the engineer and the designer. Chapter 6, "Thermal Stability," by G. F. L. Ehlers, peculiarly combines melting and decomposition phenomena, and is not up-to-date. But Chapter 7, "Electrical Properties," by K. N. Mathes, though reIatively Iong, is an excellent, readable review of a subject that is not adequately covered elsewhere in the polymer literature.

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