Composites Manufacturing: Materials, Product, and Process Engineering Sanjay Mazumdar    President, E-Composites.com, Grandville, Michigan, USA
	List Price: $109.95 Cat. #: 0585 ISBN: 0849305853 Publication Date: 12/27/2001 Number of Pages: 416 Availability: In Stock  CRC Press

• Covers material selection guidelines, product manufacturability, product development process, cost estimating techniques, and more
• Helps you understand where a process fits within the overall scheme and which is appropriate for a particular component
• Presents the latest information and guidelines for making all types of products using composite materials
• Includes the aerospace, automotive, marine, and sporting goods industries

More and more companies manufacture reinforced composite products. To meet the market need, researchers and industries are developing manufacturing methods without a reference that thoroughly covers the manufacturing guidelines. Composites Manufacturing: Materials, Product, and Process Engineering fills this void. The author presents a fundamental classification of processes, helping you understand where a process fits within the overall scheme and which process is best suited for a particular component. You will understand:
o Types of raw materials available for the fabrication of composite products
o Methods of selecting right material for an application
o Six important phases of a product development process
o Design for manufacturing (DFM) approach for integrating benefits and capabilities of the manufacturing process into design of the product so that the best product can be produced in a shortest possible time and with limited resources
o Detailed description of composites manufacturing processes with some case studies on actual part making such as boat hulls, bathtubs, fishing rods and more
o Process models and process selection criteria
o Design and manufacturing guidelines for making cost-competitive composite products
o Procedures for writing manufacturing instructions and bill of materials
o Joining and machining techniques for composite materials
o Cost-estimating techniques and methods of comparing technologies/manufacturing processes based on cost
o Recycling approach to deal with post-market composite products
To stay ahead in this quickly changing field, you need information you can trust. You need Composites Manufacturing: Materials, Product, and Process Engineering.