In this book, the authors consider not only the design and operation of the loom itself, but also the preparation of yarns and packages, the design...
This book offers a comprehensive survey of the man-made fibres, including rayons and other natural polymer fibres, and the true synthetic fibres which...
A comprehensive survey of the natural fibres animal, vegetable and mineral on which we depended for our textiles until comparatively recently.
The purpose of aligning short fibres in a fibre-reinforced material is to improve the mechanical properties of the resulting composite. Aligning the...
Over the last 50 years, great progress has been made in developing artificial fibre-reinforced composite materials, generally using filaments with...
This new, retitled, edition of Fibre Failure and Wear of Materials has been updated and expanded to include more examples from work at UMIST...
The edited papers which comprise this book were presented at the international conference, Ecotextile ’98, which was organised jointly by Bolton...
This book examines the physical testing of textiles in the form of fibre, yarn and fabric, the emphasis throughout eing on standard and reproducible...
Laminated composite materials have been used since the 1960s for structural applications. This first generation of materials were successful because...
This very practical book is intended to show how composites are increasingly being used in real-world applications in areas where the primary material...