TY - JOUR
AU - Kinloch, A. J.
AB - JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE LETTERS 3 (1984) 9--12 D. MAXWELL, R.J. YOUNG Materials Department, Queen Mary College, Mile End Road, London El 4NS, UK A. J. KINLOCH Ministry of Defence (PE), Propellants, Explosives and Rocket Motor Establishment, Waltham Abbey, Essex, UK When cured, epoxy resins are highly crosslinked, of two to five but usually also increase both the amorphous thermoset polymers. This structure yield stress and modulus. In an effort to attain the results in such polymers possessing a relatively optimum properties from toughened epoxy poly- kigh modulus, strength and glass-transition tem- mers we have been investigating the relationships perature but also leads to very brittle materials. between the chemistry, microstructure and This last aspect is illustrated by the fracture ener- mechanical properties of hybrid particulate-filled gJies of typical epoxy polymers being only of the epoxy-polymers which contain both rubbery and order of 100Jm -2, or so. To increase the crack rigid dispersed phases. In the present paper we resistance, but without seriously impairing other wish to describe some initial results from our important properties, two methods have been studies. reported [ 1 ] based upon attaining a dispersion of a The expoxy resin employed with derived from particulate 
TI - Hybrid particulate-filled epoxy-polymers
JO - Journal of Materials Science Letters
DO - 10.1007/BF00720061
DA - 1984-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/hybrid-particulate-filled-epoxy-polymers-YIKYFc7lxs
SP - 9
EP - 12
VL - 3
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -