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Relation Between Melt Treatment and Glass Fiber Strength
Author(s) -
CAMERON N. M.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1966.tb15392.x
Subject(s) - glass fiber , composite material , materials science , nozzle , fiber , thermal , thermodynamics , physics
The scatter usually seen in strength data for virgin E‐glass fibers can be reduced to a very low level by controlling the thermal history of the glass melt from which the fibers are formed. Provided the glass melt is heated substantially above the drawing temperature, strengths of subsequently produced groups of 10 specimens will have a coefficient of variation of ∽1%. Unless glass is prevented from stagnating in the nozzle of the fiber‐forming apparatus during a pause in the drawing operation, a secondary effect, associated with the spontaneous creation of defects in the glass in the nozzle, causes fibers produced immediately after such a pause to exhibit low strengths and high scatter.