Designing for material separation: Lessons from automotive recycling

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 501-509

  Coulter, S ^a   Bras, B ^a   Winslow, G ^b   Yester, S ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT   (Italy)

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EID: 0012843905     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2829179     Document Type: Article

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