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Fabrication of carbon-carbon composites by forced flow-thermal gradient chemical vapor infiltration

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Carbon fiber-carbon matrix composites were fabricated using the forced flow-thermal gradient chemical vapor infiltration (FCVI) process. The preforms for the infiltration were prepared by stacking 40 layers of carbon cloth in a graphite holder. The preforms were infiltrated with carbon using propylene or methane as a reactant, with hydrogen as a diluent. Composites with porosities as low as 7% have been processed within 8-12 h. The highest deposition rate obtained in the present study was ∼3 μm/h, which is more than an order of magnitude faster than the typical value of 0.1-0.25 μm/h for the isothermal infiltration process.

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  1. School of Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332, Georgia, USA

    Sundar Vaidyaraman

  2. Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332, Georgia, USA

    W. Jack Lackey, Garth B. Freeman, Pradeep K. Agrawal & Matthew D. Langman

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Vaidyaraman, S., Jack Lackey, W., Freeman, G.B. et al. Fabrication of carbon-carbon composites by forced flow-thermal gradient chemical vapor infiltration. Journal of Materials Research 10, 1469–1477 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1995.1469

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