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The strength of pitch-based carbon fibre at high temperature

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The strengths of some high modulus pitch-based carbon fibres have been determined up to 1300 °C in both air and nitrogen atmospheres. The fibres possessed Young's moduli of 700 GPa and were 10 μm in diameter. The strength of the fibres was seen to be gauge length dependent but to a lesser extent than is usual with PAN-based carbon fibres. The fibre strength was observed to increase with temperature as did the Weibull modulus.

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  1. Research Laboratory of Engineering Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta, Midori, 227, Yokohama, Japan

    Y. Tanabe & E. Yasuda

  2. Centre des Materiaux, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, 91003, Evry Cedex, France

    A. R. Bunsell & Y. Favry

  3. Material Science, Toyohashi University of Technology, Tempaku-cho, 440, Toyohashi, Japan

    M. Inagaki & M. Sakai

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Tanabe, Y., Yasuda, E., Bunsell, A.R. et al. The strength of pitch-based carbon fibre at high temperature. J Mater Sci 26, 1601–1604 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00544669

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