Abstract
Reinforcements need not necessarily be in the form of long fibers. One can have them in the form of particles, flakes, whiskers, short fibers, continuous fibers, or sheets. It turns out that most reinforcements used in composites have a fibrous form because materials are stronger and stiffer in the fibrous form than in any other form. Specifically, in this category, we are most interested in the so-called advanced fibers, which possess very high strength and very high stiffness coupled with a very low density. The reader should realize that many naturally occurring fibers can be and are used in situations involving not very high stresses (Chawla, 1976; Chawla and Bastos, 1979). The great advantage in this case, of course, is its low cost. The vegetable kingdom is, in fact, the largest source of fibrous materials. Cellulosic fibers in the form of cotton, flax, jute, hemp, sisal, and ramie, for example, have been used in the textile industry, while wood and straw have been used in the paper industry. Other natural fibers, such as hair, wool, and silk, consist of different forms of protein. Silk fibers produced by a variety of spiders, in particular, appear to be very attractive because of their high work of fracture. Any discussion of such fibers is beyond the scope of this book. The interested reader is directed to some books that cover the vast field of fibers (Chawla, 1998; Warner, 1995). In this chapter, we confine ourselves to a variety of man-made reinforcements.
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