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Machining Behavior of
Green Composites
A Comparison with
Conventional Composites
Inderdeep Singh and Pramendra K. Bajpai
12.1 INTRODUCTION
There has been a noticeable change in choice of materials for various engineer-
ing applications in the last few decades. Composite materials, especially polymer
composites, have replaced metals and alloys in a wide variety of elds such as auto-
mobiles, civil engineering, aerospace, medical, electronics, agricultural, and sports
equipment. Conventional polymer matrix composites (PMCs) consist of synthetic
bers such as glass, carbon, and aramid as reinforcement and petroleum-based syn-
thetic polymers as ...