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Copper and aluminium alloys are widely used in marine engineering in areas such as pipelines, storage tanks, ships' hulls and cladding for offshore structures.

Watson's advanced textile design: Compound woven structures is a companion volume to Watson's textile design and colour.

The World Trade Organization and international denim trading is the first market report that focuses on analysing the international denim trading market and its key players.

Based on extensive primary research The Chinese and Hong Kong denim industry is the first title of its kind that contains a systematic description and analysis of the denim textile and clothing industry in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Understanding and predicting the structure and properties of woven textiles is important for achieving specific performance characteristics in various woven applications.

Smart coatings can produce coatings that offer above and beyond the normal functions of a coating, these range from improving the performance of fabrics, producing new forms of materials to providing decoration.

A concise and accessible guide to the knowledge required to fulfil the role of a welding inspector.

The textile industry can experience a vast array of problems.

Cold weather can be a potential hazard to human health, adversely affecting physiological functions, work performance and wellbeing.

Maraging steels are high-strength steels combined with good toughness.

This book provides an overview of the types of textiles used within the interior textile sector and key technological developments and safety issues affecting the industry.

The surface of textiles offers an important platform for functional modifications in order to meet special requirements for a variety of applications.

Due to their complexity and diversity, understanding the structure of textile fibres is of key importance.

As consumer demands for specific attributes in their textiles increase and global competition intensifies, it is important that the industry finds ways of engineering certain performance requirements into textiles and apparel.

An important and growing area of the textile industry is the medical sector.

Given their growing importance in the aerospace, automotive, sports and medical sectors, modelling the microstructure and properties of titanium and its alloys is a vital part of research into the development of new applications.

Carpets have been made throughout the world for hundreds of years.

Fibres are used both for traditional textile applications as well as in advanced technical structures.

Smart clothes and wearable technology is a relatively novel and emerging area of interdisciplinary research within the fashion, textile, electronics and related industries.

The identification of fibers is important to the textile industry, forensic science, fashion designers and historians among others.

Corrosion control in the aerospace industry has always been important, but is becoming more so with the ageing of the aircraft fleet.

The response of cells to biomaterials is critical in medical devices.

Advanced research into wool science and technology is leading to a better understanding of the properties of wool.

Weld cracks are unacceptable defects that can compromise the integrity of welded structures.

The need for manufacturers to make new products, diversify existing products and remain globally competitive is increasing.

Shape memory alloys are suitable for a wide range of biomedical applications, such as dentistry, bone repair and cardiovascular stents.

Textile structure and mechanics are fundamental to the way textiles are designed, manufactured, tested and used.

Biomimetic materials are those inspired from nature and implemented into new fibre and fabric technologies.

The textile industry is becoming an increasingly competitive environment.

Automotive textiles represent one of the most valuable international markets for technical textiles.

There have been important recent developments in the production and application of three dimensional fabrics.

A new edition of a well established and respected textbook from an author who is a recognised authority in this field.

MIC (microbiologically influenced corrosion) is the deterioration of metal by corrosion processes that occur either directly or indirectly as a result of the activity of living organisms.

During the last decade the engineering applications for nickel and chromium coatings have gained in importance.

Provides a detailed insight into short fibres of different types (metallic and organic) in a polymer matrix, as well as reporting on the design considerations and applications of such composites.

An authoritative source of reference on every aspect of thermal welding and associated cutting processes.

This looseleaf manual provides a wealth of information on an industry that, until recently, was highly secretive.

Mechanochemical processing is a novel and cost effective method of producing a wide range of nanopowders.

The growing use of light alloys in industries such as aerospace, sports equipment and biomedical devices is driving research into surface engineering technologies to enhance their properties for the desired end use.

Technical yarns are produced for the manufacture of technical textiles.

Nonwovens have been one of the fastest growing and most exciting sectors of the textiles market.

This book is chiefly concerned with the conventional fusion welding processes and their problems and will be of value to practical welding engineers, inspectors and metallurgists.

The use of tubular, or as it is often known, flux-cored wire has grown dramatically in the last thirty years.

Versatility, speed and low cost make wet-stick welding an attractive method for use in underwater repair and construction.

The book describes the results of over 20 years research completed this year at one of the world's premier consumable manufacturers and aimed at improving the properties of MMA electrodes for high quality applications.

Enables the reader both to understand and to use, in a practical manner, laser welding.

The welding of tubes is an essential requirement in the fabrication of components in many industries.

An updated, revised and expanded version of Professor Burdekin's earlier work of the same title, this book explains this branch of thermal engineering in clear, practical terms.

The key to avoidance of fatigue, which is the main cause of service failures, is good design.

Translated from the German, this is a practical book for engineers which explains the trials, development and manufacturing processes involved in electron beam welding.