Design Guides
In addition to our magazines, CompositesWorld offers several special issues to support various interests such as energy, offshore oil, automotive and infrastructure applications.
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Aerospace Composites — A Design and Manufacturing Guide
Aerospace Composites is the latest in COMPOSITESWORLD’s design guide series. With input from the senior staff of High-Performance Composites magazine and from key aerospace industry professionals, the valuable information in this Guide will help place your company at the leading edge of the aerospace growth trend!
The Guide includes:
- Reviews of the size, scope and potential for growth in the current aerospace market
- Existing and potential use of composites applications and the quantities of composite materials required
- Established and emerging aerospace technologies in aircraft, spacecraft, and maintenance and repair
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$59.99 per copy plus shipping and handling.
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- For 11-20 copies, $30 each
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Automotive Composites — A Design and Manufacturing Guide
Ray Publishing Inc., the publisher of High-Performance Composites and Composites Technology magazines, has published the Second Edition of the best-known in its series of applications guides for specific end markets: Automotive Composites — A Design and Manufacturing Guide. The Guide contains a revised industry overview, all-new chapters and breaking news about the many new composite materials and molding processes used in a broad spectrum of interior, exterior and underhood components — functional and cosmetic — in vehicles of almost every description.
Automakers are under pressure like never before. Consumers are demanding fuel-efficient, high-performance, safe and reliable vehicles, at low sticker prices. As the cost of steel and other raw materials goes up, automotive OEMs are aggressively lightweighting existing models and developing alternative energy vehicles designed to conserve dwindling traditional fuel supplies.
These factors are converging to make composite materials an essential element in new vehicles. Rapid growth is inevitable, say industry analysts, and greater design flexibility, substantial weight reduction, parts consolidation, lower tooling cost, corrosion resistance and better vibration damping are just a few of the advantages that composites offer to automotive designers. Toward that end, Automotive Composites — A Design and Manufacturing Guide takes a timely inside look at a number of key categories of composite-for-metal substitution. Case studies, ranging from Class A body panels to structural chassis elements and running gear, describe actual projects in detail, together with insights provided by designers, molders and material suppliers.
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Composites in Alternative Energy: A Design and Application Guide
This special-interest book is the fifth in a series of informative, detail-packed publications about the use of composite materials in targeted market areas. Composites in Alternative Energy takes an in-depth view of the alternative energy market, which market sectors are using composites in the greatest quantities, and the areas that are likely to grow the fastest. Interviews with part manufacturers allow readers to understand materials and processes for selected specific parts.
Four sections discuss wind turbine components (blades, nacelles and towers); fuel cells (molded bi-polar plates); alternative fuel storage strategies (high-pressure cylinders and tanks); and other uses of composites, including marine power turbines, flywheels, and composites in grid elements like transmission lines and utility poles. Also included are an in-depth overview, an introduction to composite materials and resources for finding more information: a bibliography, lists of contact and organizations and a glossary.
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Emission Control Strategies: A guide for composites manufacturers
This brand new reference is an invaluable aid describing pollution prevention and add-on emission control technologies that can reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) and hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions from composites manufacturing facilities. The Guide is designed to help facilities identify practical emission control techniques prior to the August 23, 2004 compliance deadline for the Boat Manufacturing Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standard and the April 21, 2006 compliance deadline for the Reinforced Plastic Composites MACT standard, both promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Organized by type of emission control techniques, each chapter examines available methods for controlling air emissions, including specific case histories of successful projects undertaken by many different composites manufacturers. Chapters include discussion of low-emission resins and gel coats, vapor suppression methods, low-emission application methods, better ways for cleaning, actual capture and control equipment and proper compliance tracking methods.
In addition, there is a wealth of valuable background information. The "Regulatory Overview" explains the interplay between federal and state air quality regulations, as well as upcoming changes to major regulatory programs. The "Database" section summarizes several critical regulatory compliance actions, including ways to "opt-out" of air quality regulatory programs, calculate emissions, submit reports and identify relevant standards. Finally, the "Resources" section contains an extensive glossary of composites-related regulatory terms and provides contact information for federal and state regulatory agencies as well as suppliers.
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$59.99 per copy plus shipping and handling.
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Composites in Offshore Oil: A Design and Application Guide
This brand new reference examines specific offshore oil applications that benefit from composite materials, ranging from topside piping and gratings to downhole parts. Organized by type of product, the eight chapters describe design issues central to using composites and present successful projects involving actual installations. Examples of both new construction and retrofits of existing structures are included to illustrate how operators have incorporated these versatile materials. Products covered include topside facility piping, topside components like grating, spoolable tubulars, subsea and downhole applications like air cans and drillable tools, composite tendons, risers and drill pipe, repair considerations and future applications like composite structural beams and entire composite platforms.
In addition, the Guide also provides a wealth of background information about composite properties and design. A glossary of terms, a list of relevant organizations and a detailed bibliography are included in the "Resources" section. The Database section describes composite materials and manufacturing processes and how they affect part performance, design considerations including physical property comparisons to other materials, and opinions from six experts familiar with composite applications in the industry.
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$59.99 per copy plus shipping and handling.
- For 2-4 copies, $50 each
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Composites for Infrastructure: A Guide for Civil Engineers
Composites For Infrastructure: A Guide for Civil Engineers (1998, 100 pp.) is a softcover reference text that examines specific infrastructure applications integrating composite structural members into large construction projects, especially bridges. Design issues central to using composites and successful projects are emphasized in seven chapters covering cables and tendons, beams and girders, trusses, columns/posts/piling, laminates and filament winding, gratings and handrails, rebar.
Additional features: charts comparing physical properties of structural composites to traditional construction materials; design forum addressing increased composites use and the need for specifications; design manual excerpts; resource listing of organizations, agencies, universities, and businesses offering services in infrastructure; glossary of composites/infrastructure terms; bibliography of infrastructure/composite technical publications; listing of design, engineering and construction firms with demonstrated experience in composite structures; discussion of specifications in progress.
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$59.99 per copy plus shipping and handling.
