Composite Basics - version 5
by Andrew C. Marshall

Explains details about glass, carbon and Kevlar fibers, resins, adhesives, foams, honeycomb, tooling and manufacturing methods, designing, stress, loads and load testing, how core works in a structural sandwich, how vacuum bags and autoclaves work, and more.

This is a well done manual which is recommended by most composite airframe manufacturers. It includes the technical data, but it is also written in a pratical easy to understand manner, with emphasis on how to do things along with problems often encountered in the shop.

208 pages      $32.50

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Table of Contents

The structural fibers
Fabrics
Core materials
Honeycomb Cores
Carving and forming materials
The resin matrix
Molding Methods and tooling
Wet resin and honeycomb cores
Designing composite structures
Calculating stresses and loads
Adhesives and bonding
Load testing your structure
Appendix
Sources of materials and information
Glass weave styles cross reference
List of Kevlar weave styles
No more Rivets
Properties of a few carbon fibers and fabrics
Available sandwich panels from M.C. Gill's inventory

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