Effects of coupling agents on dynamic mechanical properties of aged and wet multi-functional epoxy resins cured with acid anhydrides and filled with pitch based carbon short fibers treated with coupling agents

Abstract

Effects of coupling agents on dynamic mechanical properties of aged and wet multifunctional epoxy resins cured with acid anhydrides and filled with pitch based carbon short fibers treated with coupling agents, Advanced Composite Materials, 7:3, 249-262,

Influence of aging and wetting on dynamic mechanical properties of multi-functional epoxy resins cured with diamines and filled with pitch-based carbon short fibers treated with coupling agents

“…Similar to the previous reports [6,7,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15], the dynamic mechanical pproerties were measured by a Rheovibron DDV-25FP (manufactured by Orientec Inc.). An SEM (a JEM-5200 manufactured by Nihon Electron, Inc.) was used to observe the surface and dispersion states of short fibers before and after the aging.…”

“…As these were the same types of materials as those used in the previous reports [13], the same abbreviations are used in this paper for the specimens, except for the hardeners employed in the study. The diamine hardeners (DA) used are listed in Table 1.…”

“…Processing of the aging and wetting of specimens in order to evaluate heatresistance and water-resistance was carried out in a manner similar to the previous reports [11][12][13][14]. For aging, a gear oven was used at 130 • C for up to 5000 h. For wetting, the specimens were immersed in distilled water to remove air attached on the specimens by degassing and were kept at 21 • C under atmospheric pressure for 5000 h. The change in weight of the specimens due to the treatment was calculated from the difference in weight before and after the treatment.…”

“…Tanaka et al also improved [9,10]. Water-resistance and heat-resistance of short fiber filled multi-functional epoxy resin were evaluated by measuring the dynamic mechanical properties through aging for up to 5000 h and wetting for 5000 h. The relationship between the state change and the dynamic mechanical properties by aging and wetting was reported previously for matrices (multi-functional epoxy resin) [11], for materials filled with pitch-based carbon and graphite short fibers without surface treatment [12] and treated with coupling agents and cured with acid anhydride [13]. A similar study for materials filled with Aramid short fiber of length 1 mm was also reported [14].…”

“…In this paper, multi-functional epoxy resin cured with two types of diamine filled with pitch-based carbon short fibers at 22.2 wt% and treated with five types of coupling agents was aged at 130 • C for 5000 h and wetted at 21 • C for 5000 h and its dynamic mechanical properties were investigated over a wide temperature range of −150 • C to +300 • C using the same methods as in previous reports [11][12][13][14]. The results were compared with materials filled with short fibers treated with coupling agents and cured with acid anhydrides [13] and matrices [11]. The utility of the materials was also evaluated.…”