Carbon Fibers: Manufacturing, Application, Processing

This useful guide provides a hands-on approach to making carbon fibers and their composites for those who need to use these materials.

The book begins with a brief history of carbon fiber development, with definition of the terminology for all forms of solid carbon, and the properties of elemental carbon and its allotropic forms. Various carbon fiber precursors, surface treatments, and sizes for a range of carbon fiber types available on the world market are presented. The book gives an exce...