Description:
The book discusses primary and secondary manufacturing of different classes of polymer matrix composites and fabrication, machining, and joining techniques. It describes the challenges encountered and manufacturing methods for developing of cost-effective and high-quality composite products.
Review Quotes:
"An excellent piece of work describing useful information on polymer based composites."
--Manoj Gupta, National University of Singapore
"This book has value in providing researchers insight on the recent developments in composite materials."
--Alan Kin-Tak Lau, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
"This is an interesting and unique book on processing of polymers and composites that will be a worthy read for researchers, students, material engineers, and scientists who are looking for new research directions. This excellent book covers a wide range of issues related to processing of polymer composites. It is an updated book on the current needs of the polymers and composites industry, and a useful source of reliable information on this emerging field. It is relevant to multidisciplinary research and is expected to contribute to the advances in several disciplines with particular emphasis on engineering."
--Vijay Kumar Thakur, Cranfield University, United Kingdom