Concise Encyclopedia of Composite Materials (Advances in Materials Science and Engineering)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: February 23, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780262111454
Subjects: Materials science; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - General; Technology / Engineering / General; Composite Materials; Encyclopedias
First sentence: Fibrous polymer composites have found applications in aircraft from the first flight of the Wright Brothers' Flyer 1, in North Carolina on December 17th 1903, to the plethora of uses now enjoyed by them on both military and civil aircraft, in addition to the more exotic applications on space launcher vehicles and satellites.