摘要: |
Low Cost Carbon Fiber Research that was conducted at the University of Tennessee Space Institute has established a pitch based carbon fiber research program funded by Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to address the high cost of carbon fiber composite materials. The objective of this program is to develop low cost carbon fiber using pitch as the raw material for a variety of commercial applications. A number of technologies that are currently using other synthetic fibers can use high strength, lightweight and low cost carbon fibers to reduce weight, improve performance, and generate new applications. Low cost carbon fiber will be in a position to provide enormous advantages to a number of technologies such as, lightweight automobiles, buses, trains, aircrafts, ships and applications including lightweight body panels and load bearing structures and many other transportation systems components, will result in weight and energy savings. |