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Any series with a title beginning Developments in. . . is obviously intended to report innovatory and novel ideas. The trouble with innovatory thinking is that it often seems too esoteric for practical people to bother with. Certainly, this book is not meant primarily to be a quick-reference manual for fabricators. Its purpose is rather to signal the kind of developments which almost certainly will im**e on the world of reinforced plastics in, say, four or five years' time. In this particular volume most of the authors have directly or indirectly addressed the practical problems of processing and fabrica tion with reinforced plastics. There has been no attempt to review the current state-of-the-art of producing fabricated articles in reinforced plastics by such techniques as filament winding or pultrusion because these subjects have already been well covered elsewhere. Nor have I even tried to provide a comprehensive survey of all that could be called new in this field. Instead, I have simply taken a number of important and somewhat underestimated topics, generally material orientated rather than machine-centred, and asked leading figures to summarise the scene. At the risk of appearing arbitrary let us consider the first chapter by Cattanach and Cogswell. They tell us how a new material has been produced which not only adds to the range of composites available, it makes possible new fabrication processes (at least, new to FRP). Consequently it should result ultimately in many new markets and products. The opportunities are lucidly and imagina tively set out.
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Front Matter
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Book Title: Developments in Reinforced Plastics—5
Book Subtitle: Processing and Fabrication
Editors: G. Pritchard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4179-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Elsevier Applied Science Publishers Ltd 1986
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-85334-400-1Due: 30 April 1986
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8356-0Published: 13 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4179-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 274