This-article reviews development of PAN based carbon fibers, “Torayca”, primarily focusing on tensile strength, tensile modulus, and compressive strength improvements.
The key technologies to improve tensile strength, tensile modulus, and compressive strength are to eliminate or minimize defects, to increase the degree of orientation for graphite crystals, and to restrain crystal growth with maintaining fiber modulus, respectively.
Then this article briefly describes tensile and durability characteristics of carbon fiber reinforced plastics. It will be shown that carbon fiber reinforced plastics exhibit the best durability performance in long term environments.
Also, the importance of control technology development for fiber/matrix interface which significantly influences mechanical properties of carbon fiber reinforced plastics is emphasized.
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