Abstract
Various dynamic curing experiments for an epoxy-amine adhesive system were conducted using a differential scanning calorimetry. The obtained data were corrected using a proposed baseline method, and fitted to a generalized autocatalytic model of chemical reaction to determine the model parameters. It was shown that with classical fourth-order Runge-Kutta numerical algorithm, the kinetic model as derived from the dynamic experiments could be used to reliably simulate an industrial curing process, which may include nonisothermal and quasi-isothermal curing steps. In addition, various quasi-isothermal curing experiments were performed; the heat flows of cure were measured, and numerically compared with relevant model calculations.
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