January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
220 pages
7h 20m
English
N. Tucker, University of Lincoln, School of Engineering, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Consumers, companies, and legislators are beginning to recognize both the internal and external value of good corporate citizenship and the intelligent stewardship of finite resources. The linear “take-make-consume-dispose” model that has been followed since the industrial revolution is beginning to be perceived as problematical because of the limited availability of resources. Clean production requires the evolution of design and manufacturing processes into the cyclical use of resources where minimal waste products can be used as the feedstock for some other process or manufacture. Composite manufacturing processes are frequently described ...