Use of submicron diameter carbon filaments for reinforcement between continuous carbon fiber layers in a polymer-matrix composite

✍ Scribed by Steven W. Hudnut; D.D.L. Chung

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 454 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-6223
• DOI: 10.1016/0008-6223(95)00148-7

✦ Synopsis

The incorporation of 0.1-0.2 pm diameter carbon filaments (0.6 vol.%) between continuous carbon fiber (7 pm diameter, 56.5 vol.%) layers in an epoxy-matrix composite during composite fabrication was found under flexure to greatly increase transverse and longitudinal tan 6 values, increase the storage modulus in the transverse direction, slightly decrease the storage modulus in the longitudinal direction, and increase both longitudinal and transverse loss moduli to values as high as 2 GPa.