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The effect of specific combinations of moisture, heat, and stress on the physical structure, failure modes, and tensile mechanical properties of diaminodiphenyl sulphone (DDS)-cured tetraglycidyl 4,4′diaminodiphenyl methane (TGDDM) epoxies [TGDDM-DDS (27 wt% DDS)] are reported. Sorbed moisture plasticizes TGDDM-DDS epoxies and deteriorates their mechanical properties in the range 23 to 150° C. Studies of the initiation cavity and mirror regions of the fracture topographies of these epoxies indicate that sorbed moisture enhances the craze initiation and propagation processes. The effect of tensile stress-level, applied for 1 h on dry epoxies, on the subsequent moisture sorption characteristics of the epoxies was also investigated. Such studies indicate that the initial stages of failure that involve both dilatational craze propagation and subsequent crack propagation enhance the accessibility of moisture to sorption sites within the epoxy to a greater extent than in the latter stages of failure which involve crack propagation alone. The amount of moisture sorbed by TGDDM-DDS epoxies is enhanced by ∼ 1.6 wt% after exposure to a 150° C thermal spike, as a result of moisture-induced free volume increases in the epoxies that involve rotational—isomeric population changes.
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Morgan, R.J., O'neal, J.E. & Fanter, D.L. The effect of moisture on the physical and mechanical integrity of epoxies. J Mater Sci 15, 751–764 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00551743
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