Carboxyl-terminated butadiene acrylonitrile (CTBN) liquid rubber/epoxy (diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A: DGEBA) / diamino diphenyl methane (DDM) resins, in which CTBN was 60 wt % as the major component, were formulated to evaluate the damping and adhesive properties. In cases where acrylonitrile (AN) was 10$18 mol % as copolymerization ratio in CTBN, the blend resins showed micro-phase separated morphologies with rubber-rich continuous phases and epoxy-rich dispersed phases. The composite loss factors (Z) for steel laminates, which consisted of two steel plates with a resin layer in between, depended highly on the environmental temperature and the resonant frequencies. On the other hand, in the case where AN was 26 mol % in CTBN, the cured resin did not show clear micro-phase separation, which means the components achieve good compatibility in nano-scale. This polymer alloy had a broad glass-transition temperature range, which resulted in the high loss factor (Z > 0.1) for the steel laminates and excellent energy absorbability as the bulk resin in a broad temperature range. Also the resin indicated high adhesive strengths to aluminum substrates under both shear and peel stress modes. The high adhesive strengths of the CTBN/epoxy polymer alloy originated in the high strength and the high strain energy to failure of the bulk resin.
Carboxyl-terminated butadiene acrylonitrile (CTBN) rubber/ epoxy (diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A) / diamino diphenyl methane polymer blends with 60 wt% of CTBN were formulated to evaluate the viscoelasticity and the damping properties. When the blend resins had micro-phase separated morphologies composed of epoxy-rich dispersed phases larger than 500 nm in diameter surrounded by a rubber-rich continuous phase, the loss factors (η) of the steel laminates adhered with the resin significantly depended on the environmental temperature and the resonant frequencies. The resins with epoxy-rich phases smaller than 200 nm in diameter had broad glass-transition temperature range that resulted in the high loss factor (η > 0.1) of the steel laminates in the broad temperature range. Inhomogeneous nano-gel structures with 20∼30 nm sizes were observed in more compatible resins by scanning probe microscopy, although appreciable micro-phase separation was detected by none of SEM and TEM. Pulse NMR suggested that the fraction of interfacial phase in the resins increased with increasing the compatibility of the blends. The large interfacial phase in the inhomogeneous nano-gel structures seems to play an important role in the damping mechanisms.
The nucieation kinetics of proeutectoid f'errite at austenite grain boundaries were studied in an Fe-C-Ni alloy by observing ferrite particles on fracture facets along prior austenite grain boundaries. Whereas a large scatter in the ferrite particle numbers was observed among grain boundary facets, the average particle number appeared to increase with isothermal hoiding time.
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