Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Quantitative evaluation of the brittleness of carbon fibers

  • Brief Communications
  • Published:
Polymer Mechanics Aims and scope

Abstract

A simple method is proposed for the rapid determination of the brittleness of fibers. Measurement data are given for glass and carbon fibers. It is shown that the conditions of heat processing for carbon fibers may fundamentally alter their brittleness.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Literature Cited

  1. H. Frehsen, Melliand Textilber.,1, 3 (1971).

    Google Scholar 

  2. H. Böder, E. Fitzer, Naturwiss.,57, 29 (1970).

    Google Scholar 

  3. M. G. Moutand, Bull. Inf. Sci. Techn.,155, 7 (1971).

    Google Scholar 

  4. C. I. Cur, I. M. Milnis, and W. N. Reynolds, Nature,220, 1024 (1968).

    Google Scholar 

  5. A. F. Zak, Physicochemical Properties of Glass Fiber [in Russian], Moscow (1962).

  6. L. S. Tverskaya, G. L. Koren'kov, Khim. Prom. za Rubezhom, No. 1, 3 (1972).

  7. R. A. Coyle, L. M. Gillin, and B. I. Wicks, Nature,226, 5242, 257 (1970).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. L. E. Utevskii
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. V. Savitskii
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. A. P. Stepanova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. R. M. Levit
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. V. G. Raikin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. L. A. Frumkina
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

A. F. Ioffe Physical-Engineering Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 950–952, September–October, 1973.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Utevskii, L.E., Savitskii, A.V., Stepanova, A.P. et al. Quantitative evaluation of the brittleness of carbon fibers. Polymer Mechanics 9, 844–846 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856294

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856294

Keywords

Search

Navigation