Abstract
This chapter provides a brief overview of the types and properties of individual constituents of reinforced plastic materials. These are not necessarily the starting points in a design, so a similar survey is made of semi-processed materials such as fabrics, moulding compounds and prepregs.
The chapter also looks at the behaviour of a typical fibre reinforced plastic to highlight the differences between such materials, plastics and metals.
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Mayer, R.M. (1993). Materials and properties. In: Design with Reinforced Plastics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2210-8_5
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