Process for producing shaped bodies comprising fiber-reinforced ceramic materials,
where a green body is produced in a first step by introducing a press moulding
composition into a mold, where the press moulding composition comprises carbon
fibers and/or carbon filaments and pitch and/or resins which, when treated thermally
and with the exclusion of oxidizing agents, form carbon-containing residues, the
green body is cured in a second step by heating to a temperature of from 120
C. to 280 C. under pressure, the cured green body, also referred to as intermediate
body, is carbonized in a third step by heating in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to
a temperature of from about 750 C. to about 1100 C. to form a C/C body,
wherein heating in the first, second and/or third step is at least partly effected
by an electric current being passed through the pressable composition, the green
body and/or the cured green body, shaped bodies produced according to this process
and their use as brake disks, clutch disks and friction disks