Chemorheology of highly filled thermosets: Effects of fillers
- Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia)
Highly filled thermosets are utilised in the manufacture of many high value added products in the aerospace, communication, computer and automobile industries. A fundamental understanding of the processing of these materials has, however, been hindered by the inherent complexities of the flow and cure properties of these composite thermoset materials. A chemorheological (gel point and chemoviscosity) testing procedure is described here that uses dynamic multiwave tests on a modified Rheometrics RDSII system, using a filled epoxy moulding compound (EMC). Data from this testing procedure has been combined with physical property and kinetic data to produce realistic simulation results using flow simulation software (TSET; MOLDFLOW Pty Ltd). This chemorheological testing procedure has now been successfully implemented commercially by MOLDFLOW Pty Ltd.
- OSTI ID:
- 602900
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961108-; TRN: 98:001968-0048
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Chicago, IL (United States), 10-15 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 1996 First joint topical conference on processing, structure and properties of polymeric materials; PB: 594 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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