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Establishment and verification of curing kinetics model of 603 epoxy resin system

  • Tingting Li
  • , Yanxia Li*
  • , Chao Chen
  • , Yizhuo Gu
  • , Shaokai Wang
  • , Jianfang Li
  • , Guiyang Li
  • , Min Li
  • , Zuoguang Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

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Abstract

The curing kinetics of 603 thermoplastic toughened epoxy resin was investigated by non-isothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The curing reaction of 603 epoxy resin system was consisted of two dominant reactions (reaction 1 and 2), as evidenced by the presence of a double peak on the DSC thermograms. The curing kinetics of the 603 resin system was investigated after separating the two overlapping exothermic peaks. The overall apparent activation energies of the curing processes were fitted respectively with Kissinger method and a two-parameter (m, n) Kamal model was employed to describe the curing kinetics. The reliability of established model was proved by comparing the calculation results with the experimental results of three different curing processes of the epoxy resin system. Based on the exothermic curves at different heating rates, the curing temperature of the reaction 1 whose heat accounted for 70% of the total heat of reaction is (177.3±2.2)℃ and the initial temperature and the curing temperature of the reaction 2 whose heat accounted for 30% of the total heat of reaction are (178.6±0.7)℃ and (216.9±1.7)℃ respectively by extrapolation method. The results have important significance for the analysis of curing kinetics of multi-component thermosetting resin system and optimization of composite processing.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)95-102
Number of pages8
JournalFuhe Cailiao Xuebao/Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica
Volume35
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

  • Cure kinetics model
  • Extrapolation method
  • Non-isothermal DSC
  • Peak differentiation imitating
  • Thermoplastic toughened epoxy resin

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