Fiber-reinforced polymers filament winding

Continuous-fiber reinforcement gives plastic products which are not simply quantitatively, but often qualitatively, superior to most present commercial practice. Most plastic processing is limited to conventional melt flow of short-fiber reinforcements, which sacrifices much of the potential benefits of reinforcement. There are a few processes for incorporating continuous fiber reinforcement—filament-winding, pultru-sion, swirl conformation of fibers in polymer... 

Ostertag and Haug [194] also used filament winding to prepare carbon fiber reinforced SiC matrix composites using Si polymers as matrix precursors, which were pyrolyzed to form a SiC matrix. 

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