ELECTRICAL SENSING OF SHELF-CURE PROPERTIES OF POLYMERIC PREPREG MATERIALS

摘要

Most polymeric thermoset materials change (cure) slowly as they lie in storage; a prime example of this is composite prepreg materials. These changes are generally vitrification, and are not readily observable using some of the standard cure-monitoring methods, such as DSC and FTIR, which sense mainly the gelation process. Evidence of this observation is presented, along with the successful results of an effort to monitor this shelf-cure process using a simplified resistivity meter. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [References: 18]