Title: A good concept, but edition 7 is now needed!
Product review: A listing of commercially available fibers, fabrics and prepregs from the advanced composites industry. Also some thermoplastic products. The directory provides an alphabetical list of most the manufacturers and suppliers, including phone and fax numbers, and addresses. But no websites nor e-mail info. Main focus is rightly on carbon or graphite fibers, but aramid (Kevlar, Twaron), UHMWPE (Spectra), High strength glasses (S-2 glass) and ceramic fibers are included. Useful features include glossary of terms, with translation table showing English, French, German and Italian. And also an index of trade names. Proof reading OK, but could be better, e.g. a table comparing 21 high performance fibers incorerectly showed data for R-glass listed as S-glass, and for Hercules IM7 as IM8. The other 19 were accurate. Potentially very useful, but to be 6 years old in a rapidly changing industry is not acceptable, especially at this price!
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