Composite Materials: Engineering and Science

by F.L. Matthews, Rees D. Rawlings, R D Rawlings

Book Overview

The purpose of this wide-ranging introductory text is to provide a basic understanding of the underlying science as well as the engineering applications of composite materials. It explains how composite materials, with their advantages of high strength with stiffness, together with low weight and other desirable properties are formed and discusses the nature of the different types of reinforcement and matrix - and their interaction. Methods of production,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855734737
• ISBN13: 9781855734739
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"