Anomalous Behavior of Cured Epoxy Resins: Density at Room Temperature versus Time and Temperature of Cure

Abstract

The room temperature density (RHO RT) of a difunctional aromatic epoxy resin cured with a tetrafunctional aromatic amine passes through a maximum value with increasing conversion. For a given cooling rate cure results in a unique value of (RHO RT) for each conversion as long as the material does not vitrify on cure. The occurrence of vitrification during cure eliminates the one-to-one relationship because of the non-equilibrium nature of the glass transition region and of the glassy state. In the glass transition region there is competition between physical aging which increases the density and chemical aging which decreases (RHO RT). Prolonged isothermal cure and physical aging to well beyond vitrification result in limiting values of (RHO RT) which decrease with increasing temperature of cure. Keywords: Vitrification, Glass transition, Kinetics, Physical aging.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA197644

Entities

People

  • J. K. Gillham
  • K. P. Pang

Organizations

  • Princeton University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amorphous Materials
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Contracts
  • Engineering
  • Epoxy Resins
  • Glass Transition Temperature
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Military Research
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Polymers
  • Resins
  • Thermosetting Plastics
  • Transition Temperature
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

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  • Polymer Science and Technology
  • Reinforced Composite Materials
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.