Microwave irradiation as a means of improving the mechanical and physical properties of polypropylene/carbon fiber composites

The microwave processing of materials is a relatively new technology that provides new approaches to improve the physical properties of materials; provides alternatives forprocessing materials that are hard to process; reduces the environmental impact of materials processing; provideseconomic advantages through the saving of energy, space, and time; and provides an opportunity to produce new materials and microstructures that cannot be achieved by other methods.The carbon fibers due to their good electrical, thermal and dielectric properties are amongst the best microwaveabsorbent materials [1, 2]. The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of microwave on properties of carbonfiber/polypropylene composites