Continuum Theory of the Mechanics of Fibre-Reinforced Composites

The chapter on thermophysical properties, curtailed from that in the first edition, should be different by giving uniformly the latest internationally-agreed property data and by giving information for modern materials: e.g., Table 65, reproduced from the 1950's, includes in its "selected nonmetals" none of the polymers in widespread use in the 1980's. One may perhaps allow use of outdated material properties in an elementary text where they will be used only in exercises: but in a handbook I would hope to find the currently most accurate values. The page of references on Fickian interdiffusion coefficients could have been saved by citing T. R. Marrero and E. A. Mason, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, Vol. 1, 1972, pp. 3-118, which reviews them. Into whose hands would I place this Handbook? Certainly students and colleagues who might want a direct introduction to specific topics; also research engineers, consultants and other technically adept engineers. For some problems it is enough; for others, it helps provide an entry to the literature, especially from the 1955-1980 era.