Title |
A Study on the Treeing Phenomenon due to the Post-Cure Conditions of the Thermo-Setting Epoxy Resin |
Abstract |
This paper is to investigate relationships between tree inception voltage, tree extension or treeing breakdown voltage and physical characteristics changing as parameter of the post-cured conditions of thermo-setting epoxy resin. According to the results in this paper, the optimal tree inception voltage and treeing breakdown voltage of the samples are obtained for the sample post cured for 15 hours at 100 'C. It can be noticed that these results are closely related with the state of interior molecule coupling and three-dimen sional cross-linked of thermo-setting epoxy resin. And tree inception, tree extension and treeing breakdown of the samples are affected significantly on the post-cured conditions and the cooling method after post-cured of thermo-setting epoxy resin. Moreover, the tree extension by ambient temperature are closely related with softening temperature of thermo-setting epoxy resin. |