Rheological behavior of the epoxy resin loaded with the pozzolan

Abstract

The study is to synthesize composite materials with news formul ations of thermosetting matrices by the incorporation of 40% of mineral fillers to reduce the cost of composite materials an d to improve implementation by increasing the viscosity and redu cing the withdrawal to its minimum value. The mineral filler increases si gnificantly in rheological parameters, whatever it nature of th e mineral filler. Compared to the control without charges, an increase of 60% of the shear stress and that of plastic viscosity were reco rded for the epoxy resin. The software Rheowine viscometer enabled us to m odel and identified the rheological behavior of these mixtures wit h resin. The results obtained in this modeling, confirmed that th e resin mixtures have shear-thinn ing rheological behavior, this last allows the model of the Ostwald de Waele