期刊
POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
卷 154, 期 -, 页码 203-210出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2018.06.004
关键词
UV radiation damage; Modeling; Polymers; PMCs
资金
- National Science Foundation I/UCRC Center for Novel High Voltage Materials and Structures [IIP 1362135]
- NSF Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry program [CMMI-123252]
We are proposing in this work a new model of ultraviolet (UV) damage for polymers and Polymer Matrix Composites (PMCs). Flat and sinusoidal polymer surfaces were numerically simulated for their UV damage as a function of UV intensity, surface topography, and exposure time. Experimentally determined UV degradation rates for a unidirectional glass epoxy composite were used to predict numerically the local rates of material degradation on sinusoidal epoxy surfaces subjected to UV. This allowed us to show that UV damage on uneven polymer surfaces reduces their surface roughness making them planar and that the degradation rates are the largest at the tips of the local heights of the surfaces. This was subsequently verified experimentally by exposing neat epoxy specimens to UV in air at 80 degrees C for 1000 h and by precisely monitoring their surface topography as a function of time. It was found that the surface roughness of the epoxy was reduced by about 12.5% and that UV affected the local peaks on the surfaces of the specimens more than the valleys. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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