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Temperature effects on rigid nano‐silica and soft nano‐rubber toughening in epoxy under impact loading
Author(s) -
Huang DeDong,
Xu Feng,
Du XuSheng,
Lee ZhengHang,
Wang XiaoJun
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.45319
Subject(s) - epoxy , materials science , composite material , natural rubber , nano , toughness , scanning electron microscope , void (composites) , toughening , fracture toughness , izod impact strength test , ultimate tensile strength
ABSTRACT The rigid nano‐silica and soft nano‐rubber toughening effects on neat epoxy under impact loading in a range of −50 to 80 °C were investigated. Nanosilica particles (20 nm) toughened neat epoxy at all temperatures with a maximum toughening efficiency at −50 °C and lower efficiency at elevated temperatures. In contrast, except at −50 °C, nano‐rubber particles (100 nm) showed the deterioration effect on the impact fracture toughness of epoxy resin. Scanning electron microscopy examinations revealed that the crack pinning and local epoxy deformation induced by rigid particles in term of nano‐silica/epoxy and nano‐rubber/epoxy interfacial debonding (at −50 °C) led to positive toughening efficiency on neat epoxy. However, at 20 and 80 °C, the rubber cavitations/void plastic growth was significantly suppressed under the impact loading, which led to the negative toughening efficiency on epoxy. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2017 , 134 , 45319.