This reference concerns the subject of advanced composites manufacturing. Industry leaders present an overview of the field and provide an economic perspective for those considering the future of advanced composites. The book provides an overview on fundamental issues, a brief engineering snapshot of composite materials and their manufacturing processes, and addresses issues common to all manufacturing processes.

This book is a unique, multidisciplinary, effort to apply rigorous thermodynamics fundamentals, a disciplined scholarly approach, to problems of sustainability, energy, and resource uses. Applying thermodynamic thinking to problems of sustainable behavior is a significant advantage in bringing order to ill defined questions with a great variety of proposed solutions, some of which are more destructive than the original problem. The articles are pitched at a level accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students in courses on sustainability, sustainable engineering, industrial...