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Seller Description: This fundamental resource for all textile and fashion designers explores over 70 production techniques and over 60 materials used in textile and fashion design. Organized into four main parts - Fibre and Yarn Technology, Textile Technology, Construction Technology, and Materials - it is a complete overview of the life cycle of textile and fashion ... See More Details

Seller Description: Textiles: Basics is designed to provide you with a basic knowledge of textiles so you can be prepared for a career in the global textile and apparel industry. With the knowledge from this book, you will have the foundation you need to make informed decisions regarding textile materials and textile products and to communicate effectively with other ... See More Details

Seller Description: Features over 14,000 definitions of fibres, fabrics, laws and regulations affecting textile materials and processing, inventors of textile technology, business and trade terms relevant to textiles. This dictionary is a useful reference for those working in the textile industry. See More Details

Seller Description: This book bridges the gap between theory and practice in the extrusion field. Now in its fifth edition, the best-selling Polymer Extrusion continues to provide valuable, up-to-date information for polymer engineers and chemists who need both theoretical and practical tools for successful extrusion operations. Since the last edition in 2001, there ... See More Details

Seller Description: Prepare for a Career in TEXTILES with Confidence! Sara Kadolph's Textiles provides students with a comprehensive, basic knowledge of textiles. This beautiful book, filled with full-color photos and illustrations, examines the interrelationships among fibers, yarns, fabrics, and finishes and discusses how they impact product performance. Organized ... See More Details

Seller Description: Highlighting a broad range multiscale modeling and methods for anticipating the morphologies and the properties of interfaces and multiphase materials, this reference covers the methodology of predicting polymer properties and its potential application to a wider variety of polymer types than previously thought possible. A comprehensive source, ... See More Details

Seller Description: Polyurethanes in Biomedical Applications studies the use of polyurethanes in implanted medical devices. This analysis describes the concepts of polymer science, the manufacture of polyurethanes, and the biological responses to implant polyurethanes, reflecting the developments in biomaterials science and the interdisciplinary nature of ... See More Details

Seller Description: Bio-Based Polymers and Composites is the first book systematically describing the green engineering, chemistry and manufacture of biobased polymers and composites derived from plants. This book gives a thorough introduction to bio-based material resources, availability, sustainability, biobased polymer formation, extraction and refining ... See More Details

Seller Description: Brydson's Plastics Materials, Eighth Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the commercially available plastics materials that bridge the gap between theory and practice. The book enables scientists to understand the commercial implications of their work and provides engineers with essential theory. Since the previous edition, many ... See More Details

Seller Description: The topic of this book is Cold Spray technology. Cold Spray is a process of applying coatings by exposing a metallic or dielectric substrate to a high velocity (300 to 1200 m/s) jet of small (1 to 50 ???m) particles accelerated by a supersonic jet of compressed gas. This process is based on the selection of the combination of particle temperature, ... See More Details

Seller Description: Braided fabrics are made by interlacing yarns or strips of fabric. Braiding produces a wide range of structures for technical textile applications from medical sutures to cables for anchoring ships. Written by one of the world's leading experts in the field, the book reviews the basic principles, design and processes used in braiding. The book ... See More Details

Seller Description: This volume describes the physical and organic chemistry of the reactions by which polymer molecules are synthesized. The book begins by introducing the characteristics which distinguish polymers from their much smaller sized homologs. It proceeds to a detailed study of three types of polymerization reactions: step, chain and ring-opening. ... See More Details

Seller Description: The knowledge of how to make a shoe pattern was certainly the ancient shoemaker's most closely guarded secret, passed from master to apprentice but never written down. Now, after 20 years of research, the principles for making ancient shoe patterns have been rediscovered. See More Details

Seller Description: For courses in Textiles and Apparel Manufacturing. Fabric Glossary offers an illustrated fabric dictionary, with a place for swatches of actual fabric, that fulfills a need that the swatched workbooks on the market do not. It complements more fully the course of study detailed in its companion book, Fabric Reference, by exploring the fascinating ... See More Details

Seller Description: "Many technical books about plastics are too theoretical and difficult to read. The intention of this book is to offer something completely different: it is easy to read with many examples taken from everyday life. It is suitable for readers at secondary school and university levels, and can be used for training activities in industry as well as ... See More Details

Seller Description: Additives for Polyolefins is a unique quick-reference resource for those who create or use polyethylene and polypropylene compounds-the most commercially important family of plastic materials, making up close to half of the volume all plastics produced and used. These polymers would be useless without various additives. The book focuses on ... See More Details

Seller Description: First published in 1984, this remains the definitive study of textiles as they were used in early American homes. See More Details

Seller Description: This authoritative text examines how fashion apparel and accessories are designed, manufactured, marketed and distributed. It focuses on the organization and operation of the US textiles and fashion industry and the role of these industries within a global context. See More Details

Seller Description: Polymers for 3D Printing: Methods, Properties, and Characteristics provides a detailed guide to polymers for 3D printing, bridging the gap between research and practice, and enabling engineers, technicians and designers to utilise and implement this technology for their products or applications. See More Details

Seller Description: This thorough text covers thermoforming processes and products. It moves from a relatively simple approach to more technical in-depth consideration, featuring examples and guidelines to illustrate all technical aspects. See More Details

Seller Description: This bestseller covers not only the various types of extruders and their main components, it also gives a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles, the important polymer properties, and the processes occurring within the extruder -- including flow in the die, devolatilization, and mixing. Its practical approach, e.g., to screw design ... See More Details

Seller Description: Automotive Plastics and Composites: Materials and Processing is an essential guide to the use of plastic and polymer composites in automotive applications, whether in the exterior, interior, under-the-hood, or powertrain, with a focus on materials, properties, and processing. The book begins by introducing plastics and polymers for the ... See More Details

Seller Description: Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World See More Details