Green Composites - Waste and Nature-Based Materials for a Sustainable Future

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Baillie is Professor of Praxis in Engineering and Social Justice at the University of San Diego, a highly cited materials engineer, and cofounder of the not-for-profit organization Waste-for Life. Randika Jayasinghe is the Project Coordinator of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade funded project led by UWA: ‘Australian-Sri Lankan University partnerships to develop community-based recycling businesses’. Randika has a background in waste management and has recently completed her PhD on the use of waste-based composites.

List of contents

1. Green composites: Towards a sustainable future?
2. Designing for composites: Traditional and future views
3. Cellulose fiber/nanofiber from natural sources including waste-based sources
4. Natural fiber and hybrid fiber thermoplastic composites: Advancements in lightweighting applications
5. Recycled synthetic polymer fibers in composites
6. Clean production
7. Green composites for the built environment
8. Engineering with people: A participatory needs and feasibility study of a waste-based composite manufacturing project in Sri Lanka
9. Nanotechnology and the Dreamtime knowledge of spinifex grass

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Jayasinghe Baillie
• Assisted by: Caroline Baillie (Editor), Baillie Caroline (Editor), Randika Jayasinghe (Editor), Jayasinghe Randika (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2017
• EAN: 9780081007839
• ISBN: 978-0-08-100783-9
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering; Woodhead Publishing Series in; Woodhead Publishing Series in; Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, NATURE / Natural Resources, Science / Environmental Science, Waste Management, Materials science, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General