Study of the influence of a reactive diluent on the rheological properties of an epoxy-diamine system

摘要

The rheological behaviour of the materials diglycidil ether of bisphenol A (n = 0), 1, 2 diamine-cyclohexane and the epoxy reactive diluent vinylcyclohexane dioxide have been studied both separately and mixed before the beginning of the curing reaction. Different kinds of tests such as: preshear and time sweep, flow curve and stress sweep experiments were carried out. From these experiments, interesting information about: viscosity-shear stress and viscosity-shear rate dependences, storage modulus and the linear viscoelastic region were found out. Relationships between concentration of diluent and the final viscosity of the mixed sample and also between percentage of diluent and storage modulus were studied.