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EFFECTIVE use of any fibres requires that they be incorporated into a matrix that develops the full strength of the fibres. Much attention, rightly enough, has been given to carbon fibres because of their low density and high strengths and elastic moduli. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., have announced a fibre with tensile strength of 250,000 lb./in.2 and modulus of 60 million1. Several U.S. suppliers have fibres commercially available with strengths to 180,000 lb./in.2 and moduli to 25 million. In time, fibre properties may approach 500,000 lb./in.2 strength and 90 million modulus. These properties of fibres are very attractive, but it is the composite properties that are of ultimate importance in the use of the fibre.
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SIMON, R., PROSEN, S. & DUFFY, J. Carbon Fibre Composites. Nature 213, 1113–1114 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2131113a0
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