Superposition of dynamic mechanical properties in the glassy state

✍ Scribed by Cuddihy, Edward F. ;Moacanin, Jovan

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 303 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0449-2978
• DOI: 10.1002/pol.1970.160080915

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Superposition of the loss tangent curves could be achieved for the β‐transition of a series of homologous epoxy resins. It was found that both a vertical and horizontal shift were necessary to achieve superposition when the curves were plotted as the logarithm of the loss tangent versus reciprocal absolute temperature. Resins from the diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) were prepared with five different curing agents and their loss tangent curves measured on a free‐oscillation torsion pendulum (ca. 1 cps). The β transition is caused by DGEBA, which was found via molecular models to contain a mobile group. The intensity of the loss for three of the resins was found to be proportional to the concentration of DGEBA, molecular models revealing that no additional mobile groups were introduced by these curatives. The remaining two curing agents introduced mobile groups into their systems and for these two, no separate transitions were identified but the intensity of the DGEBA β transition was increased. This may be caused by a coupling of the DGEBA mobile groups through the flexibility of the curative‐introduced mobile groups.