High Performance Reinforcements

Boron filaments are formed by the chemical vapor deposition of boron trichloride on tungsten wire. High performance reinforcing boron fibers are available from 10—20 mm in diameter. These are used mainly in epoxy resins and aluminum and titanium. Commercial uses include golf club shafts, tennis and squash racquets, and fishing rods. The primary use is in the aerospace industry. 

A hard-and-fast rule to be followed by all intending to use plastics is to design for plastics. As an example, for the same-size cross-section the strength of conventional plastics (not the high-performance reinforced types) is considerably less than that of most metals. The designer will thus find it necessary to increase thickness, introduce stiffening webs, and/or possibly use design inserts of various types of threads to secure the proposed product. The process will in some instances also require modification to the shape of the equipment used to produce the product. 

Sustainable standard and high-performance reinforcements, sustainable and biodegradable components for matrices, sustainable composites. 

Recently, much attention is being placed on fibres-reinforced/polymer systems as subjects of study. It was caused by increasing emphasis on high performance reinforced polymer composites. The concept of acid/base interactions across the fibre/polymer interface was noted particularly and the relevance of acid/base theories to the behaviour of po-... 

Much less ordered than PAN-based high-strength CFs are the isotropic CFs. They are produced by the carbonization of isotropic pitch fibers (or other fibrous precursors such as phenolic resins or cellulose, including rayon), without any attempt to obtain a preferred orientation of the polyaromatic molecules in the fiber direction. Consequently, they have a random nanotexture and belong to the low modulus class of CFs [16]. Rather than being used for high-performance reinforcement purposes, they find their application as thermal insulators for furnaces or as reinforcements for cement [1]. Another important use of isotropic CFs is as a feedstock for the production of activated carbon fibers, a material dealt with in Section 2.4.4. 

PPS with PPhA and GF stiff, high performance reinforced alloys Davies, 1990... 

Also called aramid fibers. See High Performance Reinforcements, Aramid Fibers in this chapter. 

Table 3.7 Comparison of high performance reinforced thermoplastics with 40 wt% glass fiber...

For most thermoforming operations using unfilled or unreinforced polymers, the differential pressure is less than 0.5-1.0 MPa (145 psi). Differential pressures of more than 3.0 MPa may be needed for high performance reinforced polymers. 

Figure 1-20. Ford s lightweight concept vehicle of the 1960s made extensive use of high-performance reinforced plastics and composites employing graphite fiber.

Figure 12-2. High-performance reinforced plastic/composite recreational boat exterior that meets all kinds of conditions for strength, rigidity, toughness, and resistance to saltwater, sun, sand, and so on.

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Lastly, they present a high performance reinforcement at relatively low cost. 

Figure 1.3 Boeing 777 uses different types of plastics that include high performance reinforced plastics...

Plastics continue to expand their use in primary and secondary aeronautical structures that include aircraft, helicopters, and balloons, to missiles space structures. Lightweight durable plastics and high performance reinforced plastics (RPs) save on ftiel while resisting all kinds of static and dynamic loads (creep, fatigue, impact, etc.) in different and extreme environments. Certain military planes contain up to 60wt%... 

During fabrication o/isotropic pitch-based carbon fibers no means (neither mechanical nor chemical) are applied to achieve preferred orientation of the polyaromatic molecules in the fiber direction. They belong to the carbon fibers type LM, and because of the relatively low values of strength and Young s modulus this pitch-based carbon fiber type is not used for high-performance reinforcement purposes. 

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