Abstract
AbstractThe commercial epoxy prepreg SPX 8800, containing diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A, dicyanodiamide, diuron, and reinforcing glass fibers, was isothermally cured at different temperatures from 75 to 110°C and monitored via in situ near‐infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy. Two cure conditions were investigated: curing the epoxy prepreg directly (condition 1) and curing the epoxy prepreg between two glass plates (condition 2). Under both curing conditions, the epoxy group could not reach 100% conversion with curing at low temperatures (75–80°C) for 24 h. A comparison of the changes in the epoxy, primary amine, and hydroxyl groups during the curing showed that the samples cured under condition 2 had lower initial epoxy conversion rates than those cured under condition 1 and that more primary amine–epoxy addition occurred under condition 2. In addition, the activation energy under cure condition 2 (104–97 kJ/mol) was higher than that under condition 1 (93–86 kJ/mol), but a lower glass‐transition temperature of the cured samples was observed via differential scanning calorimetry. The moisture in the prepreg was assumed to account for the different reaction kinetics observed and to have led to different reaction mechanisms. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 87: 2295–2305, 2003
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