Glass fibers for reinforcement

Electrically conductive pipes are less well known. These pipes are used to prevent electrostatic hazards in oil tanker applications. The pipe for this purpose was developed using glass fiber for reinforcement and carbon fiber to obtain conductivity. There are also methods of production of such pipe where aluminized glass fiber is mixed with reinforcing glass fiber. 

CS Temple. Glass Fibers for Reinforcing Polymers. U.S. Patent 5130197, July 14, 1992. 

E-Glass. A borosilicate glass the type most used for glass fibers for reinforced plastics suitable for electrical composites because of its high resistivity. (Also called electric glass ). 

Fibrous Glass. Fibrous glass is manufactured in two different forms, very fine intermingled fibers called insulation fibrous glass for insulation and fine but coarser fibers called continuous or textile fibers for reinforcement and other textile appHcations. Both products have constmction related apphcations. 

We first describe the characteristic drawability feature of glasses which stems from their viscoelastic nature and then describe the fabrication processes for the glass fiber for insulation and reinforcement of polymers and for optical communication purposes, both of which exploit the ability of glass to be drawn... 

Special types of glass fiber for specific processes (Chapters 4 and 5), such as sheet molding compound (SMC), pultrusion, and reinforcement of thermoplastics, is a marked trend in current development. Examples follow ... 

Since it is silica-based, glass fiber for polymer reinforcement could be thought of as a cousin to mineral fillers. But glass fiber is more carefully produced in controlled, uniform, and symmetrical shapes with extremely high aspea ratios, with particle dimensions that are (usually) visible to the human eye. Glass-fiber reinforcement is probably the most cost-effective and most proven way of reinforcing polymers to inaease tensile and flexural modulus and strength. 

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