Medical Plastics focuses on improving the performance of medical devices and packages through understanding their many modes of failure.
Medical Plastics includes tutorial reviews of established areas of technology and reports of research in some of the latest developments.
Medical Plastics describes methods for predicting performance and assuring the quality of medical goods or analyzing failed parts to elucidate the cause of failure, the impact of sterilization on a wide range of plastics, the resistance of device construction materials to chemicals and other environmental stresses such as low temperature, the error-free assembly of devices, novel materials with enhanced properties, and other topics.
Contents:
Analytical Methods
- Validating Materials for Packaging: Controlling the Front End
- Failure Analysis of Polymeric Medical Devices
- Materials Analysis Techniques for Medical Devices
- Using Burst Testing to Evaluate Sterile Blister Packaging
- Servohydraulic Testing Systems for Biomaterials
- Measuring Residual Stress in Transparent Plastics
Behavior of Materials
- The Changes in Ethylene Oxide Sterilization and Their Effect on Thermoplastics
- Understanding Environmental Stress Cracking in Polyethylene
- Failure Morphology of Injection Molded High Density Polyethylene, HDPE, Component with Living Hinge
- What Makes Clear Polypropylene Discolor?
- Effect of y-Radiation on Isothermal Crystallizaiton of Polypropylene
- Evaluation of Irradiated Polypropylenes by Strain Rate Dependence of Tensile Properties
- Polypropylene Response to High-Energy Radiation
- Plastomer Modified Polypropylene Films for Medical Product Packaging
- Predicting Post-rad Shelf-life from Accelerated Aging Data: the D&A Process
- Chemical Resistance of Polycarbonate
- Controlled Ductility Loss of Polycarbonate Through Steam Sterilization
- Reprocessing of Medical Vinyl Compounds
- Improving the Gamma Resistance of Flexible PVC
- Effects of Saline Environment on the Properties of PEEK and Epoxy Composites
- The Advantages of Utilizing Thermoplastic Polyesters in Medical Devices Subjected to Harsh Environments
- New Poly etherimide Alloy with Enhanced Toughness and Sterilization Capabilities
- Absorbable Polymers with Engineered Biomedical Properties
- Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials for Dental Appliances
- Non-Conventional Processing Routes on the Development of Anisotropic and Biodegradable Composites of Starch Based Thermoplastics Reinforced with Bone-Like Ceramics
Assembly of Plastic Parts
- Joining Plastics in Medical Devices Problems and Solutions
- Effective Use of Adhesives in Medical Device Assembly
Packaging Materials
- Correlate Resin Properties to the Cryogenic Impact Performance of Medical Containers
- Radiation Sterilization Compatibility of Medical Packaging Materials
- Light Transmittance of a Thin-Wall Container Made from Isotactic Polypropylene
Index
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