Impregnation techniques for thermoplastic matrix composites

Polymers and Polymer Composites

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 459-481

  Miller, A ^a   Gibson, A G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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