Glass fibres, tensile properties table

Table 9.7 Tensile properties of different glass fibres.

Some engineering applications of polymers reinforced with glass fibre and carbon fibres are shown in Tables 2.4 and 2.5. It is seen that there are wide ranges of applications particularly in glass fibre, carbon fibre and nanotubes. Many of these applications require polymers, which have a particularly high standard of properties, for example, stability in impact and tensile properties, thermal properties, dimensional stability and, chemical and oil resistance. 

This makes the polymer very suitable for printed circuit board manufacture. However, the incorporation of 30% glass fibre into the PEEK formulation produces a pronounced improvement in tensile properties and flexural properties with some deviation in elongation properties as shown in Table 4.5. 

Table 5.1 shows the chemical composition and the mechanical properties of several natural fibres under tensile load as compared with the synthetic E-glass fibres. 

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