Preparation of a Latent Accelerator for Hot Curing of Epoxy Resin and Study of Its Effect on Mechanical Properties of Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composites

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Postal Code 1477893855, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Composite, Faculty of Polymer Processing, Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute, P.O. Box 14975-112, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Hypothesis: Some adducts were prepared from three kinds of DGEBA-based epoxy resins, phthalic anhydride and an alkanol amine accelerator, as a latent accelerator for one-pot epoxy/dicy systems. These adducts come with two kinds of accelerators: DMP-30 A, which is lab-grade and Ax-10, which is industrial-grade, as well as DGEBA based epoxy resins Epikote 828, Epiran 06 and ML 504. The adduct made of Epikote 828 and DMP-30 A was considered as a reference. It seems that it might be possible to prepare a new efficient latent accelerator with change of epoxy resin and accelerator.
Methods: For this purpose, four different adducts with resins and accelerators and four different epoxy/dicy mixtures with four adduct types and AX-10 accelerator and one with no adduct as a reference were prepared. Measuring the melting point, viscosity build-up versus time, gelation time, non-isothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and glass transition temperature characterization and also lap shear, interlaminar shear strength, transvers tensile and scanning electron microscope (SEM) were used to study the latent properties of the prepared adducts in the epoxy/dicy system and find its effect on mechanical properties of the final composites and all were compared with references.
Findings: Melting point of all adducts is above room temperature, so they are solid at room temperature. The results show that the adducts containing the industrial accelerator in one-pot epoxy/dicy system has lower gel time at high temperature, higher viscosity changes at ambient temperature and pot life and has made no significant change in cure temperature. The mechanical properties of the composite made with an adduct consisting of ML 504 resin are accompanied by a decrease in the related values. In general, the adduct made with Epiran 06 or Epikote 828 resin and industrial accelerator is an efficient and new latent accelerator and is suitable for preparing one-pot epoxy/dicy systems.

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Iranian Journal of Polymer Science and Technology
Volume 36, Issue 2 - Serial Number 184
July and August 2023
Pages 133-149

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