Abstract
Abstract The effects of rubber content, rate of peel and temperature on peel strength of ATBN modified DGEBA based epoxy resin adhesives have been investigated. The fracture surfaces of peel test specimens and the distribution of rubber particles in cured bulk epoxy resin have been observed with SEM and TEM, respectively. The mechanical properties of bulk rubber modified epoxy resin have been also measured. The peel strengths increased with increasing rubber content, peel rate, and decreasing temperature. The peel strengths were superposed as a function of rate and temperature. Plots of the shift factors against temperature gave two straight lines, which followed an Arrhenius relationship. The region of temperature below the intersection of the two straight lines, temperature somewhat lower than Tg of epoxy adhesive, gave markedly high peel strengths and a stick-slip failure due to plastic deformation of the adhesive, and a number of micro holes produced by the rupture of rubber micro particles on the fra...
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