Preparation of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Glasses

2 Methods of preparation of carbon fiber reinforced glasses 

A chopped carbon fiber can be used as reinforcement, but in this form, it will be neeessary to form a mixture or slurry with the glass and the staple length must be 3 mm, as otherwise, it will be hard to dissipate. When subjected to pressure in the consolidation process, there will be some fiber flow resulting in a more planar array. Continuous fiber can be adapted to more automated processes such as filament winding [83]. If a water based slurry proeess is used, it would be expected that a surface treated fiber should wet out more readily by achieving more efficient interfilament penetration of the matrix. 

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