Review of costs, properties, performance, and potential of glass, asbestos, carbon and graphite, boron, silicon carbide, and boron nitride fibers and whiskers, and comparison with wire reinforcements; glass fibers dominate reinforced plastics/ composites industry, and last year estimated 170 million lb of textile grade glass fibers were used, i.e., more than 1 billion lb of reinforcement and matrix; characteristics of roving, mat, chopped strands, glass fabrics, woven roving, hollow glass filaments, and glass fiber yarns (E-, C-, and S- glasses, and new S-HTS and S-1014).
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Anon. (1968). Expanding world of reinforcements. Reinforced Plastics and Composite World, 7(3), 9–13.
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