Fracture toughness of a hybrid rubber modified epoxy. II. Effect of loading rate |
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| Authors: | M. Abadyan M. A. Kouchakzadeh R. Bagheri |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Engineering Department, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran;2. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran |
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| Abstract: | Effect of loading rate on toughness characteristics of hybrid rubber-modified epoxy was investigated. Epoxy was modified by amine-terminated butadiene acrylonitrile (ATBN) and recycled tire. Samples were tested at various loading rates of 1–1000 mm/min. Fracture toughness measurements revealed synergistic toughening in hybrid system at low loading rates (1–10 mm/min); hybrid system exhibited higher fracture toughness value in comparison with the ATBN-modified resin with same modifier content. However, synergistic toughening was eliminated by increasing the loading rate. At higher loading rates (10–1000), the fracture toughness of hybrid system decreased gradually to the level lower than that of ATBN-modified epoxy. Fractography of the damage zones showed the toughening mechanisms of ATBN-modified system was less affected by increasing the loading rate compared to that of hybrid system. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2012 |
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| Keywords: | epoxy resin rubber toughening hybrid compound loading rate fracture toughness |
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