Evaluation of the Characteristics of Heating Component Made by Composites

Today, carbon fibers are used as heating elements. Carbon fibers are generally used to reinforce composite materials because they are light weight and have a high strength and modulus. Carbon fiber reinforced composite materials are used for aerospace, automobile and wind turbine blade applications. This work explored the possibility of using carbon fiber reinforced composite materials as a self heating material. The temperature of the carbon fiber reinforced composites was measured and recorded. These results verified that the carbon fiber reinforced composite materials could be used as a heating element. The carbon fiber reinforced composite materials had to endure the self heating condition for a specified time as a structural material. This work also showed the strength degradation of the carbon fiber reinforced composite materials, which was under 1% at 85 °C after 50 hours.