Fiber Optic Essentials



Casimer Decusatis, «Fiber Optic Essentials»
Academic Press | ISBN: 0122084314 | PDF | 1,86 Mb | 288 Pages | 2005 Year

Fiber Optic Essentials provides professionals and students new to the field of fiber optics with a high-level knowledge of principles, theories and applications. This primer can also be used as a succinct overview of optics for those with some engineering and physics background. Individuals involved with optics in non-traditional capacities such as in marketing and legal departments will find this volume introduces basic concepts completely in an easy to read format.

Introduction to Fiber Optics



John Crisp,«Introduction to Fiber Optics»
Newnes | ISBN: 0750667567 | PDF | 1,23 Mb | 245 Pages | 2005 Year

Introduction to Fiber Optics is well established as an introductory text for engineers, managers and students. It meets the needs of systems designers, installation engineers, electronic engineers and anyone else looking to gain a working knowledge of fiber optics with a minimum of maths. Review questions are included in the text to enable the reader to check their understanding as they work through the book.

Extrusion Dies for Plastics and Rubber: Design and Engineering Computations



Neil Gershenfeld “Extrusion Dies for Plastics and Rubber: Design and Engineering Computations"
Walter Michaeli | 2003-08 | ISBN: 1569903492 | PDF | 362 pages | 22,2 Mb

Reader's rewiew:

This book helps explain a lot of the basics of how extrusion dies are optimized for superior cooling and flow performance. It gets into a good level of detail but is not written with too high a required knowledge going into the book. It is useful for any entry level engineer or tool designer in understanding more about the process. I purchased this as I work in the plastics industry and desired to get a more in depth mathematical understanding in order to solve some real extrusion problems, such as warping during cool.
The book starts with basics of material properties and how they interact with extrusion. It then goes into basic flow equations, not much more than you probably got in college, but then expands it to topics such as Melt Fracture. Then it goes into the CFD, or flow field, part when they talk about optimizing shape of the die to improve the velocity profile.
The meat of this book is in its discussion of various die designs for monoextrusion and coextrusion of thermoplastics and elastomers. There is then a short 10 page section on heating of the die.
The ending is on basics of calibration, operation, mechanical design, and maintaining of dies.