Beatrice Di Marziantonio
Experimental and numerical study on water uptake of epoxy resins under high temperature and pressure conditions.
Rel. Matteo Fasano, Marina Provenzano, Robert Kupfer. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Energetica E Nucleare, 2025
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Abstract
This work explores the potential of recycling carbon-fiber–reinforced epoxy com- posites, focusing on the fundamental transport phenomena governing the interaction between water and the polymeric matrix. An experimental campaign was conducted to investigate the water uptake behavior of a commercial epoxy resin (HexFlow® RTM6) under hydrothermal conditions at 100 °C, 150 °C, and 200 °C. Gravimetric measurements were analyzed using analytical solutions of Fick’s second law, both in one-dimensional and cylindrical geometries, to estimate the apparent diffusion coefficients. The results confirmed the thermally activated nature of diffusion: the diffusion coefficient increases signif- icantly with increasing temperature, especially in the jump from 150 to 200, where the increase corresponds to approximately one order of magnitude.
At 200 °C, it was also observed that the onset of chemical degradation suggested the occurrence of early-stage solvolysis
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