Carbon Fibers and Their Composites

Peter Morgan

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9780824709839
• eBook ISBN:
  9781420028744
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Naturwissenschaften
• Subtopic: Chemie

Most literature pertaining to carbon fibers is of a theoretical nature. Carbon Fibers and their Composites offers a comprehensive look at the specific manufacturing of carbon fibers and graphite fibers into the growing surge of diverse applications that include flameproof materials, protective coatings, biomedical and prosthetics application

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Introduction
• The Author
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• 1 Structure of the Carbon Atom
• 2 The Forms of Carbon
• 3 History and Early Development of Carbon Fibers
• 4 Precursors for Carbon Fiber Manufacture
• 5 Carbon Fiber Production using a PAN Precursor
• 6 Carbon Fiber Production using a Cellulosic based Precursor
• 7 Carbon Fiber Production using a Pitch based Precursor
• 8 Production of Vapor Grown Carbon Fibers (VGCF)
• 9 Surface Treatment and Sizing of Carbon Fibers
• 10 Guidelines for the Design of Equipment for Carbon Fiber Plant
• 11 Operation of Carbon Fiber Plant and Safety Aspects
• 12 Techniques for Determining the Structure of Carbon Fibers
• 13 Polymer Matrices for Carbon Fiber Composites
• 14 Carbon Fiber Carbon Matrix Composites
• 15 Carbon Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Matrices
• 16 Carbon Fibers in Metal Matrices
• 17 Testing of PAN Precursor, Virgin Carbon Fibers, Carbon Fiber Composites and Related Products
• 18 Statistics and Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• 19 Quality Control
• 20 Properties of Carbon Fibers
• 21 Manufacturing Techniques for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites in Thermoset and Thermoplastic Matrices
• 22 Design
• 23 THE USES OF CARBON FIBERS
• 24 Looking to the Future
• Appendix 1 Glossary
• Appendix 2 The Elements
• Appendix 3 The Greek Alphabet
• Appendix 4 Some Definitions and Handy Conversion Factors
• Appendix 5 ISO Standard Prefixes for SI Units
• Appendix 6 Interconversion of Common English and SI Units
• Appendix 7 Textile Terminology
• Appendix 8 Temperature Estimation from Color
• Appendix 9 Humidities over Saturated Salt Solutions
• Appendix 10 Wet and Dry Bulb Humidity Table
• Appendix 11 Detection of Cyanide [1]
• Appendix 12 British Standards on Quality
• Appendix 13 Abbreviations used in Spectroscopy and Microscopy
• Appendix 14 Typical Properties of Unreinforced Plastic Polymers
• Appendix 15 Acronyms for Thermoplastic Polymers
• Appendix 16 Companies Involved with Carbon Fibers and their Composites Throughout the World
• Back cover