Design and Manufacture of Textile Composites describes the design, manufacture and applications of textile composites.

Features:

• Gives practical processing guidelines for current processing technologies as well as emerging areas
• Covers transportation, sporting construction, and medical applications
• Illustrates typical components, associated design methodologies, and interactions between processing and performance in each application area
• Suggests new areas of investigation and potential market

Contents

1. Manufacturing and internal geometry of textiles
2. Mechanical analysis of textiles
3. Rheological behaviour of pre-impregnated textile composites
4. Forming textile composites
5. Manufacturing with thermosets
6. Composites manufacturing – thermoplastics
7. Modeling, optimization and control of resin flow during manufacturing of textile composites with liquid molding
8. Mechanical properties of textile composites
9. Flammability and fire resistance of composites
10. Cost analysis
11. Aerospace applications
12. Application of textile composites in the construction industry
13. Textile reinforced composites in medicine
14. Textile composites in sports products

Index

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