This paper investigates the properties of carbon fabric in ohmic heating and mechanical loads. The results show that the resistance of carbon fabric decreases basically linearly with the increase of temperature; but the variation range is small. For deformations caused by either tensile load or compressive load, the resistance of carbon fabric will increase with the increase of deformation, but the effects of these two loads are different. That is, the resistance increases linearly with the increase of tensile load, but there is great volatility in the initial loading and before tensile failure. For the bending load, the resistance has no significant change in the initial loading; but when the load reaches a critical value, the resistance increases linearly with the increase of the bending load.

carbon fabric  /  composites  /  electric properties