547 terms
Glossary
Technical terms around plastics, rubber and aluminium – briefly explained.
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A
- Abbreviation
- Abrasion
- Abrasion resistance
- Abrasive waterjet cutting
- ABS
- Acetal copolymer
- Acetal resin
- Acid test
- Acrylic glass
- Acrylonitrile/styrene/acrylate
- Activator
- Addition polymerisation
- Additive
- Additive Manufacturing
- Additives
- Adhesion failure
- Adhesion promoter
- Adhesion strength
- Adhesive tensile strength
- AFK
- Akulon
- Alloy
- Amodel
- Amorphous
- Angel hair
- Anisotropy
- anti-fog coating
- Anti-fog coating
- Anti-glare coating
- Application temperature
- Aramid fibre plastic
- Arnite
- Article of daily use
- ASA
- Assembly
- Assembly injection moulding
- atactic
B
C
- Calender
- calendering
- Caprolactam
- Carbon
- Carbon
- Carbon black
- Carbon black
- Carbon black
- Carbon fibre reinforced plastic
- carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic
- Cast lactam
- Cast polyamide
- Casting
- Casting resin
- Castor oil
- Catalyst
- Cavity
- Cellophane
- Cellular rubber
- Celluloid
- Cellulose hydrate
- Centrifugal casting
- Centrifugal casting
- CFRP
- Change flexibility
- Charpy impact strength
- chemical corrosion
- Chemical-resistant fluoroplastics
- Chlorinated rubber
- circumscribed quadrilateral
- Cliché
- CN
- Coating
- COC
- Coefficient of linear expansion
- Cohesion
- Cohesive fracture
- cold cutting processes
- Cold drawing
- Cold flow
- Colourants
- Combination form
- Combination technology
- Composite
- Compound
- Compressed air forming
- Condensation reaction
- Conditioning
- Conductivity
- Conformal cooling
- Connection technology
- Continuous casting
- Contraction
- Copolymers
- Core
- Corrosion
- Crazing
- Creep
- Cross-cut test
- Cross-linking
- Crystallisation
- crystallise
- Curable moulding compounds
- Curing
- Cycle time
- Cyclo-olefin copolymer
D
- Dark-field examination
- Decomposition temperature
- Degree of crystallisation
- Degree of polymerisation
- Delrin
- Density
- Depolymerisation
- Design to Cost
- Destructive testing
- Dielectric constant
- dielectric dissipation factor
- Dielectric strength
- Dimer
- DIN 52612
- DIN 8580
- DIN EN 15860
- Direct connection
- Disc spring
- Dry ice
- Dry lubrication
- Ductile fracture behaviour
- Durethan
- DVS
E
F
- Faradex
- FDM
- Feed-up process
- Fibre-plastic composite
- Filament
- Film
- Film hinges and film joints
- Fine graphite
- Fine layer
- Fire behaviour according to UL94
- FKP
- Flame retardancy
- Flame spraying
- Flat bar
- Flatness
- Flatness
- flexible polyamide
- Flexing
- Flexural strength
- Fluoroplastics
- Force fit
- Formability
- Fossil raw materials
- Friction
- Friction materials
- Friction stir welding
- Friction welding
- FRP
- Functional prototype
- Fused Deposition Modeling
G
H
- Hand lay-up process
- Hard paper
- Hardness
- Hardness testing
- Heat
- Heat ageing
- Heat capacity
- Heat deflection resistance
- Heat element welding
- Heat treatment
- heteropolar compound
- Heteropolymers
- HF welding
- High-frequency welding
- high-molecular-weight polyethylene
- Hinge
- Hollow rod
- Homopolymer
- Hostacom
- Hostaform
- Hostalen
- Hot air forming
- Hot embossing
- HPL
- Hybrid injection moulding
- Hybrid joining
- Hydrogen peroxide
- Hydrophilicity
- Hydrophobicity
- Hygroscopy
I
- IEC 250
- IEC 93
- IMA
- IML
- Impact strength
- Impact strength
- Impact strength class
- Industrial carbon black
- Inertness
- Infrared radiant heat
- Infrared transparency
- Infrared welding
- Injection compression moulding
- Injection moulding
- Insert technology
- Integral foam
- Integral rigid foam or integral flexible foam
- Interchangeability
- Interfacial diffusion
- Interfacial energy
- Interference
- Interference colour
- Internal gas pressure technology
- ISO
- Isocyanate
- Isotactic
- Izod impact strength
J
K
L
M
- Machining
- Machining allowance
- Maltese cross
- Manufacturing types
- Mass pad
- Mass production
- Masterbatch
- Masterbatch
- Material bond
- Material fatigue
- maximum application temperature
- mechanical properties
- Melamine/phenolic resin
- Melt core technology
- Melting temperature
- Microtome
- MID
- Milling
- Mindel
- minimum application temperature
- Minlon
- Mirror welding
- Modular principle
- Modularity
- Moisture analyser
- Molybdenum(IV) sulfide
- Molykote
- monolithic
- Monomer
- Monomer casting
- Monosandwich process
- Morphology
- MoS2
- Mould
- Mould core
- Moulded shapes
- Multifilament
N
O
P
- Pad printing
- Parallelism
- Pearl lustre
- PEEK
- Peel strength
- Perfluoroalkoxy copolymer
- Periodic Table of the Elements
- Permeation
- Permittivity
- Perthometer
- Phenolic resin
- Photopolymer resin
- Pin-point gate
- Piston injection moulding machine
- Plain bearing
- Plastic
- Plastic film
- Plastic flame spraying
- Plasticising
- Plasticising unit
- Plastography
- Polarimetry
- Polarisation
- Polishing
- Polyaddition
- Polyalkylene terephthalates
- Polyamide
- Polyamide 6
- Polyamide 6-3-T
- Polyamide 6/6T
- Polyamide 66
- Polybutylene terephthalate
- Polycarbonate
- Polycondensation
- Polymer
- Polymer blend
- Polymer wood
- Polymerisation
- Polymerisation reactions
- Polymethyl methacrylate
- Polyol
- Polyolefins
- Polyoxymethylene
- Polyphenylene oxide
- Polyphenylene sulphide
- Polyphenylsulfone
- Polyphthalamide
- Polypropylene
- Polypropylene
- Polystyrene
- Polysulfone
- Polytetrafluoroethylene
- Polyurethane
- Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
- Polyvinylidene fluoride
- POM-C
- Positive fit
- Primary shaping
- Printing plate
- Process materials
- Profile
- Propene
- Prototype
- Punching
- Pure density
R
- Rack
- Radiation crosslinking
- RAL colours
- Ram extrusion
- Rapid prototyping
- Reaction Injection Moulding
- Recycling code
- Refraction of light
- Refractive index
- reinforced plastics
- Reinforced Reaction Injection Moulding
- Reinforcement
- Release agent
- Revision index
- ring-opening polymerisation
- Rod
- Roller
- Rolling bearing
- Roughness
S
- Sand slurry abrasion
- Sandwich injection moulding
- Satin finishing
- Scarfing
- Scratch embossing
- scratch-resistant coating
- Screen printing
- Screw extrusion
- selective laser sintering
- self-reinforcing plastics
- Self-tapping screw
- semi-crystalline
- Semi-finished product
- Separating
- Series production
- Shape cut
- Shaping
- Sheet
- Sheet
- Shore hardness
- Shrinkage
- Shrinkage cavity
- Silicone moulds
- Silicone rubber
- Silicones
- Single-component injection moulding
- Sintering
- Slide
- Smoke gas toxicity
- Snap hinge
- Socket
- Softening temperature
- Solid lubricant
- Sonotrode
- Special pigment
- Specific gravity
- specific heat capacity
- specific volume resistivity
- specific weight
- Sphärolith
- Spindles
- Spring
- Spring hinges
- Standard thicknesses
- Standardisation
- Stereolithography
- Stiffness
- Strength
- Stress cracking
- Structural Reaction Injection Moulding
- Styrene
- Styrene methyl methacrylate
- Surface
- Surface energy
- Surface finishing
- Surface resistance
- Surface roughness tester
- Surface roughness tester
- Surface tension
- Sustainability
- syndiotactic
- Synthesis gas
T
- Tacticity
- technical drawing
- Teflon
- Tempering
- Tempering
- Tensile strength perpendicular to grain
- Terpolymer
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal expansion
- Thermoelastic
- Thermoforming
- Thermography
- Thermogravimetric analysis
- Thermoplastic
- thermoplastic copolyester elastomers
- thermoplastic elastomers
- thermoplastic vulcanisates
- Thermoset
- Thermoset moulding compounds
- Thermosets
- Thread
- Three-zone screw
- Tinting
- Titanium dioxide
- Tolerance
- Tool temperature
- Torsional strength
- Toughness
- Tracking resistance
- translucent
- Transmission
- Transmission test device
- Transparency
- transparent
- Two-component injection moulding
- Type wheel embossing
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X
Y