LI Peng, YANG Xiaoping, WANG Chengzhong, YU Dingsheng. STUDIES ON THE MICRO-STRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CURED VINYL-ESTER RESIN[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 2004,(6):812-817.
LI Peng, YANG Xiaoping, WANG Chengzhong, YU Dingsheng. STUDIES ON THE MICRO-STRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CURED VINYL-ESTER RESIN[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 2004,(6):812-817.DOI:
The microstructure in cured resins decides their mechanical properties. An important characteristics in cured vinyl-ester resin is micro-gels and bi-phase structure.The morphological structure of cured vinyl-ester resin and the formation of two-phase structures in vinyl-ester resin has been studied by using SEM and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).The results demonstrated the existence of clusters of gel-particles with a size of about 20 μm
each cluster of gel-particles containing many gel-particles with coral-like structures.The formation of gel-particles resulted in two-phase structure characterized by the two peaks in the rescanned DSC thermographs of the resin. The cure conditions (temperatures
post-cure) affected microstructure in the cured resins.The results of mechanical properties showed that the cure conditions affected the mechanical properties.The post-cure for the sample isothermally cured at 80℃ increased the tensile strengths and flexural strengths.On the contrary
the post-cure for samples isothermally cured at 120℃ decreased the tensile strengths and flexural strengths.