HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBERS: A REVIEW ON CURRENT STATE OF ART AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
Abstract
Improving properties of polymeric and non-polymeric fibers, for example mechanical, dimensional stability, thermal degradation, and etc. with understanding a recent theoretical investigation on the solid mechanism of single crystal growth leads to obtain fiber-based products with unusual characteristics. Similarly, high performance fibers are important engineering products and widely used due to their outstanding mechanical property along with dimensional stability. They have found extensive use as fiber reinforcement and can be utilized in many applications such as cords, ropes, performance fabrics, electronic packaging, sports equipment and fiber optics (Hearle, 2001; Kerr, Chawla and Chawla, 2005). It is well known that the highest tenacity and elastic moduli reported for such fibers are still much lower than their theoretical values. An extensive open gap between theoretical values and practical results encourage scientists to work
and improve the mechanical properties. On the other hand, due to their nonconventional chemistry and instrumentation, many researches have been concentrated on reducing its production costs. Additionally, there is no single fiber chemistry that can withstand all sort of end-use conditions. The objective of this review paper is to provide a critical andconstructive analysis on current state of art high performance fiber production and modification techniques. Current problems and novel solutions were emphasized separately.
Keywords
High performance , fibers , organic , inorganic , future directions
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