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A description is given of the microstructure and mechanical properties of alumina, sodalime glass, borosilicate glass and a lithia alumino-silicate glass-ceramic containing continuous, high modulus carbon fibres. Strengths up to 680 MNm−2 were obtained in glass samples containing 40 vol % of fibre whereas unreinforced glass had a strength of 100 MNm−2. Works of fracture were typically 3 kJm−2 compared to 3 Jm−2 for unreinforced glass. The results are discussed in terms of volume fraction of fibre, fibre damage, matrix critical strain and stresses generated by a mismatch in the thermal expansion coefficients of the matrix and the fibres.
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Sambell, R.A.J., Briggs, A., Phillips, D.C. et al. Carbon fibre composites with ceramic and glass matrices. J Mater Sci 7, 676–681 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00549379
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