Fiber Reinforced Plastics/Composites ›› 2009, Vol. 205 ›› Issue (6): 12-15.

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THE USING OF MALEK AND FLYNNWALLOZAWA EQUATION IN CURING REACTION
OF TDE85/MENA EPOXY RESIN SYSTEM

  

  • Online:2009-11-28 Published:2009-06-25

Abstract:

The kinetics of the cure reaction for a system of TDE85/MeNA epoxy resin was monitored

by the differential scanning calorimetry(DSC) and investigated by the constant heating methods.

According to the DSC graphs, the Tβ graph extrapolation was used to get the characteristic

curing process temperatures, and to confirm the technical parameters of the molding process of the

resin system. The kinetic parameters of the curing reaction of TDE85/MeNA epoxy resin such as the

overall activation energy Ea, the frequency factor A and the reaction equation were obtained, the

results were that : E=67.05kJ/mol, A=5.05×109s1.The curing reaction was calculated accurately by

using the correct kinetic model,and was set up by using Malek and FlynnWallOzawa equation. The

result of comparing the heating flow graph from the kinetic model and the examination was in harmony

, it illuminated that the kinetic model could be used to depict the curing reaction of the TDE

85/MeNA epoxy system.

Key words: epoxy resin, differential scanning calorimetry(DSC), Malek equation, kinetic model

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