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Effect of hydrothermal aging on the dynamic mechanical performance of the room temperature-cured epoxy adhesive

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To evaluate the performance and reliability of a new type of epoxy resin adhesive, the dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) testing was performed at different levels of temperature and frequency after hydrothermal aging. The results of the DMA and the thermodynamic analysis that the performance of the adhesive has little change after hydrothermal aging for 30 days meant that the resistance to hydrothermal aging of this adhesive was excellent. In addition, the time-temperature equivalence principle and time-aging time equivalence principle were proposed here to offer additional insights into the dynamic mechanical performance of the newly developed adhesive. Moreover, an effective method by which the generalized curve of definite aging time in certain conditions of definite temperature and humidity can be obtained was introduced.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Project of Hunan Provincial Science & Technology Department of PR China (No. 2010GK3110), the Key Project of the Education Department of Hunan Province of PR China (No. 10A130), and the Innovation Project of Postgraduate of Central South University of Forestry & Technology of PR China (No. 20181008).

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  1. Hunan Province Key Laboratory of Engineering Rheology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, 410004, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Li, Yingshe Luo & Donglan Hu

  2. College of Civil Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, 410004, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Li, Yingshe Luo & Donglan Hu

  3. College of Aerospace Science, National University of Defense Technology, 410073, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

    Dazhi Jiang

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Highlights

• A new type of room temperature-cured epoxy adhesive was fabricated.

• The hydrothermal aging and dynamical mechanical properties of epoxy adhesive were experimentally investigated.

• Theoretical models that can predict material properties in definite condition were developed.

• The findings reported in this work pave the ways to apply the adhesive in engineering structures subjected to extreme environmental conditions.

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Li, H., Luo, Y., Hu, D. et al. Effect of hydrothermal aging on the dynamic mechanical performance of the room temperature-cured epoxy adhesive. Rheol Acta 58, 9–19 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-018-1121-9

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