ABSTRACT
Fiber architecture can range from a simple uniaxial alignment to a highly complicated three-dimensional array. Much of the technology for producing preforms of fibers of interest for reinforcing ceramics has been adapted from textile technology, although there are greater limitations with high modulus, high performance fibers. For whisker reinforced ceramics, the term fiber architecture has less significance. The whiskers tend to be more or less randomly oriented, although orientation of the whisker axes can be biased in one direction or in a plane, depending upon the fabrication method.
