Processing of Composites - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3446180443 ISBN 13: 9783446180444

Publisher: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co, 2000

Synopsis

Composites have been acclaimed to be the ""Materials of the Future"". Advanced polymer composites, once destined for stealth military aircraft or aerospace uses, are beginning to be used in down-to-earth structures such as bridges, building and highways. The objectives of this book are to provide a quick overview of the fundamental principles underlying composite processing and to summarize the most important processes for composite manufacturing. This book is particularly valuable for students as a graduate level textbook and practitioners who struggle to optimize these processes.

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Synopsis

Composite materials have been acclaimed as the 'Materials of the Future.' What makes the fabrication of these materials so complex is that it involves simultaneous heat, mass, and momentum transfer, along with chemical reactions in a multiphase system with time-dependent material properties and boundary conditions. Composite manufacturing requires knowledge of chemistry, polymer and material science, rheology, kinetics, transport phenomena, mechanics, and control systems. Therefore, at first, composite manufacturing was somewhat of a mystery because very diverse knowledge was required of its practitioners. We now better understand the different fundamental aspects of composite processing so that this book could be written with contributions from many composite practitioners. This book provides a quick overview of the fundamental principles underlying composite processing and summarizes a few important processes for composite manufacturing. This book is intended for those who want to understand the fundamentals of composite processing.

In particular, this book is especially valuable for students as a graduate level textbook and for practitioners who struggle to optimize these processes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3446180443
• ISBN 13: 9783446180444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Davé Raju, Loos Alfred