New types and forms

These new types and forms of fiber provided the industry with more freedom to select the most appropriate type of fiber reinforcement for a given application. Newly developed, high modulus plastics, such as cycloaliphatic epoxies and new-generation high-temperature plastics, such as polybenzimidazole and nylon plastics, offer another degree of fi-eedom in terms of material matrix selection. 

In terms of eonstituent materials, new types and forms of fibre reinforcements are likely to be introduced. In relation to this it is worth mentioning basalt fibres as an emerging alternative to the reinforcement of FRP pultruded composites. Although the manufacturing cost of basalt fibres currently exceeds that of E-glass fibres (Ross, 2006), the mechanical properties of... 

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