**Meet the editors**

Hosam Saleh is a Professor of Radioactive Waste Management in the Radioisotope Department, Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt. He was awarded his MSc and PhD degrees in Physical Chemistry from Cairo University. He is interested in studying innovative economic and environment-friendly techniques for management of hazardous and radioactive wastes. He has authored

many peer-reviewed scientific papers and chapters. He has been the book editor of different books related to valuable international publishers.

Martin Koller is an experienced senior researcher in the field of bio-mediated polyhydroxyalkaoate (PHA) production, encompassing design and development of continuous and discontinuous fermentation processes, and novel downstream processing techniques for sustainable biopolymer recovery from microbial biomass. His focus of research is enhanced cost-efficiency of PHA

production from surplus materials using both eubacteria and halophile archaea as whole cell biocatalysts. In the past, he was also involved in the development of bio-composite materials.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Materials 3**

**Composites 15**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Background on Composite**

Mohamed M. Dawoud and Hosam M. Saleh

**Section 2 Characterization of Some Composite Materials 13**

Chapter 3 **Out of Autoclave Metal and FRP Composites Thermo-Hydroforming 27**

**Inspection Methods 45**

Chapter 6 **Nanocomposite Polyimide Materials 85**

Chapter 2 **Atomic Force and Electron Scanning Microscopy of Silicone**

Bo C. Jin, Xiaochen Li, Karl Neidert and Michael Ellis

Chapter 4 **Non-Destructive Testing of Low-Velocity Impacted Composite**

Tiziana Segreto, Roberto Teti and Valentina Lopresto

Alessandra Caggiano, Luigi Nele and Roberto Teti

Kseniia Tcarkova, Vasily Retivov and Olga Zhdanovich

Anton Yegorov, Marina Bogdanovskaya, Vitaly Ivanov, Olga Kosova,

**Material Laminates through Ultrasonic**

Chapter 5 **Drilling of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials for Aeronautical Assembly Processes 67**

Yuliya N. Karnet, Yury V. Kornev and Oleg B. Yumaschev

Hammat H. Valiev, Alexander N. Vlasov, Vyacheslav V. Vorobyev,

**Section 1 Introduction 1**
