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FiBRE Submitted By
Md. Abdul Motin Nannu
Khulna University of Engineering & Technology
1521032
What is glass fiber?
This stage undertakes the mining and fusion of the raw materials. All
ingredients are placed in a batch furnace at a temperature of around
1700c’. This ingredients, following a mixing and melting process, from
homogenous glass. The glass manufacturing stage concludes ,
either with the liquid glass flowing directly to fibre-drawing furnaces
called bushings ;or alternatively, the glass is formed into marbles or
rod , annealed and cooled at room temperature for use at some
future date.
Fibre drawing:
Silica is the basis for all commercial glasses. They are obtained by
fusing a mixture of materials (various oxides) at temperatures
ranging from 1300’ to 1600’c. There are different types of glass
fibres commercially available all of which have different
compositions and very often specific technical significance. The
following is an outline if some popular varieties of glass:
Type:
A Soda-lime glass.
E Electrical type (Borosilicate)
C Chemical resistant type
AR Alkali resistant type
S High performance application
Grades:
General purpose glass fiber
Quartz fiber
Protective fiber
Hollow fiber
Conducting/Semi-conducting
Composition Of Glass Fibres (WT%)
Components AR-glass C-glass E-glass SS-glass
SiO2 62.2 65 55.2 65
Zro2 16.7 - - -
TiO2 0.1 - - -
AL2O3 0.74 4 14.8 25
Fe2O3 0.09 0.3 0.3 -
B2O3 - 5 7.3 -
CaO 5.2 14 18.7 -
MgO 0.16 3 3.3 10
Na2O 0.16 8.5 0.3 -
K2O 0.4 - 0.2 -
LiO2 - - - -
F2 - - 0.3 -
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Ingredients Used In Glass Fibre:
The ingredients normally used in making glass fibre are:
Silicon dioxide
Calcium oxide
Aluminum oxide
Boron oxide plus a few other metal oxides .
Molecular Structural View: