Developments in Reinforced Plastics—5

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Processing with Aromatic Polymer Composites

   • J. B. Cattanach, F. N. Cogswell

   Pages 1-38

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3. Advances in the Chemistry and Applications of Bismaleimides

   • D. Landman

   Pages 39-81

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4. Review of Prepreg Technology

   • Gottfried Wiedemann, Horst Rothe

   Pages 83-119

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5. Curing Processes of Acetylene Terminated Resins

   • Charles Y-C. Lee

   Pages 121-150

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6. Effect of Chemorheology on Epoxy Resin Properties

   • A. Apicella

   Pages 151-180

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7. Electrical Methods of Characterising Cure Processes in Resins

   • David E. Kranbuehl

   Pages 181-204

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8. Basic Aspects of Joining Technology for Fibre Reinforced Plastics

   • D. P. Bashford

   Pages 205-232

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9. Rheology of Carbon Fibre Composite Prepreg Materials

   • Tsuneo Hirai

   Pages 233-265

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10. Back Matter

    Pages 267-271

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Any series with a title beginning Developments in. . . is obviously intended to report innovatory and novel ideas. The trouble with innovatory thinking is that it often seems too esoteric for practical people to bother with. Certainly, this book is not meant primarily to be a quick-reference manual for fabricators. Its purpose is rather to signal the kind of developments which almost certainly will impinge on the world of reinforced plastics in, say, four or five years' time. In this particular volume most of the authors have directly or indirectly addressed the practical problems of processing and fabrica­ tion with reinforced plastics. There has been no attempt to review the current state-of-the-art of producing fabricated articles in reinforced plastics by such techniques as filament winding or pultrusion because these subjects have already been well covered elsewhere. Nor have I even tried to provide a comprehensive survey of all that could be called new in this field. Instead, I have simply taken a number of important and somewhat underestimated topics, generally material­ orientated rather than machine-centred, and asked leading figures to summarise the scene. At the risk of appearing arbitrary let us consider the first chapter by Cattanach and Cogswell. They tell us how a new material has been produced which not only adds to the range of composites available, it makes possible new fabrication processes (at least, new to FRP). Consequently it should result ultimately in many new markets and products. The opportunities are lucidly and imagina­ tively set out.

• Prepreg
• chemistry
• development
• fabrication
• machine
• material
• materials
• plastics
• polymer
• processing
• rheology
• risk
• signal

• Department of Industrial, Organic and Polymer Chemistry, Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK

  G. Pritchard

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