Glass fibre research at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Abstract

Research and development on glass fibres was started at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, about three years ago. The two main directions in which efforts have been concentrated are (i) development of indigenous technology for producing glass fibres, (ii) development of new glass compositions for drawing fibres having novel physical properties. In this note, we briefly describe the activities of this group and some of the salient results obtained so far.