Título: | FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EPOXY RESIN/LUFFA CYLINDRICA COMPOSITE MATERIALS | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
DIANA CAROLINA PARADA QUINAYA |
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Colaborador(es): |
JOSE ROBERTO MORAES D ALMEIDA - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 28/AGO/2017 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
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[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=31211&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=31211&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.31211 | ||||||||||||
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Diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) currently represents the most widely used type of epoxy resin in the world in several applications. However, the main monomer used for its production, Bisphenol A (BPA) is considered an endocrine disruptor with estrogenic activity that has significant negative effects on human health. Environmental implications and laws limiting the use of BPA in several countries make it necessary to replace the base monomers for the preparation of epoxy resins with safer and more environmentally sustainable ones. Epoxy resins prepared from renewable sources are an alternative to the use of petroleum resins in the production of composite materials. Thus, natural oils derived from vegetable sources are considered as an alternative raw material for obtaining biologically based epoxy resins because of their availability, their relatively low price and a wide variety of possibilities for chemical transformations. On the other hand, composite materials made from thermosetting resins of vegetable origin and lignocellulosic fibers as reinforcement material could contribute to the sustainable production of low cost and lower density materials that have functional structural properties. This work proposes the preparation of composite materials, using biobased epoxy resins obtained from epoxidized soybean oil and epoxidized cardanol from cashew nuts as well as lignocellulosic (Luffa cylindrica) fibers modified by surface treatments of hornification, mercerization and acetylation. The structural, morphological and thermal effects of surface treatments on the fibers were studied using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). DGEBA/Luffa and Biobased resin/Luffa fiber composites were fabricated by the manual lay-up method and their mechanical properties were evaluated by three-point bending tests and the non-destructive impulse excitation technique (TEI). This technique was also used for the experimental determination of the dynamic modules and the damping properties of the laminates obtained during UV aging and water absorption. The effect of the introduction of the binder fibers and the different treatments performed on the fibers on the dynamic-mechanical behavior of the composites was performed by dynamic-mechanical analysis (DMA). Resins prepared with 50 percent epoxidized cardanol and 50 percent resorcinol cured with isophorone diamine presented better thermal and mechanical properties, compared to systems with epoxidized soybean oil, with an average glass transition temperature of 74 degrees Celsius and a storage modulus of 880, 5 MPa, constituting a sustainable alternative for the manufacture of composite materials by replacing the classic bisphenol A system also analyzed in this work, with values Tg equal to 77.5 degrees Celsius and E line equal to 849 MPa. The addition of luffa fibers allowed the production of composites with controlled fracture modes. In addition, an improvement in the fiber-resin interface adhesion was observed in composites with 30 percent mercerized fibers.
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