Abstract
Polymers are added with inorganic short fibres such as short glass and short carbon fibres with relatively high thermal conductivity to fabricate composites that can meet high thermal conductivity requirements for applications where highly thermally conductive materials are required. Further, dimensional stability is also important for polymers that are used in areas where temperature changes often occur. In this chapter, theoretical models for the thermal conductivity and thermal expansion of SFRPs are presented and their thermal properties are discussed as a function of the component properties, fibre length distribution and fibre orientation distribution for the cases of unidirectional, misaligned and randomly distributed fibres.
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