Mechanical and dielectric properties of segmented polyurethane elastomers containing chemical crosslinks in the hard segment

✍ Scribed by Zoran S. Petrović; Ivan Javni; György Bánhegy

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 475 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0887-6266
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0488(19980130)36:2<237::aid-polb4>3.0.co;2-o

✦ Synopsis

Mechanical and dielectric properties of two series of segmented polyurethanes having soft segment concentration of 50 and 70% and a varying degree of crosslinking through the hard segment were studied. The degree of crosslinking in each series was varied by varying the butane diol/trimethylol propane ratio in the chain extender mixture. Tensile strength, elongation at break decrease, but elastic recovery increases monotonically with increasing crosslinking. The plateau modulus in the dynamic mechanical test decreases and then increases with increasing TMP content. Crosslinking causes broadening of the soft segment glass transition as seen by permittivity and loss factor measurements. It also affects high temperature behavior (above the glass transition of the hard segment); it lowers permittivity, loss factor, and ionic conductivity.