can only be used with synthetic fibers. The air jet loom uses air to throw the weft, and thus can be use with any fiber. The company's shares are traded...

brittle when used in composites. Glass fiber reinforced composites are used in marine industry and piping industries because of good environmental resistance...

flammable material such as jet fuel. Fiber-optic sensors can be designed to withstand high temperatures as well. Optical fibers can be used as sensors to...

fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage in fiber-optic...

the hot jet exhaust. Similarly, to further protect the wearer, the engines are modified by adding a carbon fiber heat shield extending the jet nozzle around...

semi-synthetic fiber used to make textiles for clothing and other purposes. It is a form of regenerated cellulose made by dissolving pulp and dry jet-wet spinning...

Carbon fibers or carbon fibres (alternatively CF, graphite fiber or graphite fibre) are fibers about 5 to 10 micrometers (0.00020–0.00039 in) in diameter...

The Cirrus Vision SF50, also known as the Vision Jet, is a single-engine very light jet designed and produced by Cirrus Aircraft of Duluth, Minnesota,...

precipitate in fiber form. Acrylic, rayon, aramid, modacrylic, and spandex are produced via this process. A variant of wet spinning is dry-jet wet spinning...

technique to form yarn from fibers. The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin. A few popular fibers that are spun into yarn other...