High Temperature Properties

Very few measurements have been reported in the open literature on the structure and properties of carbon fibers above room temperature [Rowe and Lowe 1977; Sheehan 1987]. However, there is a somewhat larger literature on the properties of carbons at elevated temperatures [Lutcov et al. 1970; Tanaka and Suzuki 1972; Null et al. 1973; Leider et al. 1973]. Some high temperature properties of fibers can be estimated by analogy to bulk graphite results, and this approach will be used in this section where results on fibers are lacking.