Rahmat, A. R. and Day, R. J. (2003) Curing characteristics of unsaturated polyester/aramid reinforced composite : microwave vs. thermal energy. Jurnal Teknologi Siri Khas A (39A). pp. 83-96. ISSN 0127-9696
Official URL: http://www.penerbit.utm.my/onlinejournal/39/A/JTMK...
Conventional curing processes for producing thermoset composites use a thermal approach, which suffers from numerous disadvantages, including a long curing cycle time. This paper reports on an alternative curing process of an unsaturated polyester/aramid composite using microwave energy. The differences in curing characteristic of the composites fabricated between microwave and conventional ovens method were compared. Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) analysis showed that microwave curing of composite was much faster than thermal curing while Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis was found to be very much significant in comparing the conversion of polyester C=C and styrene C=C undergoing microwave and thermal curing.
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Microwave curing, unsaturated polyester/aramid composite, Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM), Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)|
|Subjects:||T Technology > TP Chemical technology|
|Divisions:||Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering (Formerly known)|
|Deposited By:||Pn Norhayati Abu Ruddin|
|Deposited On:||07 Mar 2007 07:42|
|Last Modified:||02 Jun 2011 08:39|
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