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Composite
materials have been gaining important industrial
and commercial applications world widely and
they were developed because they can offer unique
properties (lightweight, high strength and stiffness,
chemical and corrosion resistance, tailoriable
electrical and thermal properties, etc.) which
no single homogeneous structural material could
be found that had all the desired attributes
for a given application. However, due to its
composition complexity of a composite material,
its final properties are not only depending
on the properties of component materials (matrices,
reinforcements, fillers and additives) used,
but also significantly on the way it was fabricated
as well as equipments, technologies and people
skills.
Although the fabrication
and application of composite materials by human
being could be tracked back to ancient times
conceptually, the technologies for fabricating
composite materials or advanced composites we
refereed to nowadays are young and still under
development and improvement. Compared to conventional
homogeneous materials (such as metals, plastics
etc.), the manufacturing techniques for composite
materials are more demanding and more sophisticated.
New tools, new techniques and highly skilled
workers are required.
In this section,
a few of the commonly used composite fabrication
were introduced, the resources of current main
composite manufacturers, main materials suppliers
and main equipment and software manufacturers
and suppliers are also provided. Books on each
production technique are also given for readers
who want to go further for details on each particular
manufacturing technique.
The relatively
small demand, high initial investing on new
manufacturing facilities, labor intensive and
highly skilled workers needed for manufacturing
composite, there is a strong need to identify
and to develop low-cost composite materials
with high-speed manufacturing techniques.
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Recommended
Book
Advanced
Composites Manufacturing
combines cutting-edge coverage of the
scientific fundamentals of composites
processing with an in-depth treatment
of the major manufacturing processes for
advanced composite materials. Complete
with important information on such key
issues as new processing areas, manufacturing
process control, deformation forming,
and cost-control strategies, this unique
reference is essential reading for materials
scientists, researchers, and engineers
across a range of industry sectors.
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