Liquid Composite Molding

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A book/CD-ROM treatment of transport phenomena in porous media, textile, and automation technology for porous reinforcement, and of computer aided engineering for design optimization, offering a guide to engineering principles and manufacturing issues critical to successful molding operations. Introduces important concepts in liquid molding to students and to engineers new to the composites processing field, with chapters on composite materials, fundamentals of transport phenomena, reinforced construction, manufacturing composites, and microstructure. Includes chapter problems. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a permeability database and a finite element flow simulator for process design. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)