Handbook of Engineering and Specialty Thermoplastics

Handbook of Engineering and Specialty Thermoplastics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fink, Johannes Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1002/9781118087732     Document Type: Book

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