Silicon carbide fibre fabrication

Lackey J, Hanigofsky JA, Freeman GB, Hardin RD, Prasad A (1995) Continuous fabrication of silicon carbide fibre tows by chemical vapor deposition. J Am Ceram Soc 78 1564-1570... 

The traditional TPS for launcher fairings and re-entry capsules consists of an external ablative insulation, fixed or bonded onto a metallic primary structure. Ablative materials are based on thermosets (phenolic and epoxy resins) or elastomers (ethylene-propylene and silicone rubbers) usually filled and reinforced with cork, cotton, glass, silica, quartz, carbon, silicon carbide, nylon and aramid in the form of powders, fibres, fabrics and felt (Table 2). 

Traditional fibres used as reinforcement in polymer composites are generally either polymers or ceramics the polymer aramids, glass, carbon, boron, aluminium oxide and silicon carbide. Carbon is a high-performance fibre material that is the most commonly used reinforcement in advanced polymer-matrix composites. Glass fibre is readily available and may be fabricated into a glass-reinforced plastic economically using a wide variety of composite-manufacturing techniques. 

Nakano K, Kamiya A, Nishino Y, Imura T, Chou T-W, Fabrication and characterisation of three-dimensional carbon fibre reinforced silicon carbide and silicon nitride composites, J Am Ceramic Soc, 78(10), 2811-2814, 1995. 

Nakano K, Kamiya A, Ogawa H, Nishino Y, Fabrication and mechanical properties of carbon fibre reinforced silicon carbide composites, J Ceramic Soc Japan, 100(4), 472-475, 1992. 

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