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... High-performance organic fibers are used extensively in soldier protection systems ranging from body armor and helmets to spall liners in ground vehicles. The global war on terrorism has increased the demand for these fibers for crew protection kits and for tactical vehicles for immediate deployment, as well as for replacement components needed by forces in the field.
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... is important. Around 90 percent of all commercial carbon fibers are produced by the thermal conversion of PAN precursor fibers.4 As the carbon fiber industry matured during the 1980s and costs began to decrease, a variety of commercial applications for high-performance composites emerged, including sporting goods, commercial aircraft, and industrial applications.
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... Unlike the carbon fiber industry, however, growth in the high-performance organic fiber industry was driven from the beginning by a combination of military and commercial applications and aerospace and non-aerospace applications. The unusual combination of mechanical, thermal, and other properties found in high-performance organic fibers (especially PBO and aramids)
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... Fiber Demand As the fiber industry matured during the 1980s and costs began to decrease, a variety of commercial applications for high-performance composites emerged, including sporting goods, commercial aircraft, and various industrial applications. As a result, DoD usage, which dominated U.S.
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... Promising ways to improve dimensional tolerance and reduce processing variability include investment in new continuous process controls that would contribute to controlling fiber structure and purity, prepreg properties such as fiber weight per unit length, and overall property variability. To reduce manufacturing costs across all DoD applications, DoD should initiate a program with university-industry-government participation.


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