Effects of Kingcure K-11 Hardener and Epoxidized Sunflower Oil on The Properties of Polymer Composite Material Based on Epoxy Resin Gelr 128

Epoxidized sunflower oil (ESO) has been used to toughen epoxy resin GELR 128 cured with an accelerated aliphatic amine curing agent (Kingcure K-11) at room temperature. There was difference in the properties of the polymer composite materials based on epoxy resin GELR 128 cured by Kingcure K-11 between two processes: one-stage process and two-stage process for mixing ESO with epoxy resin GELR 128 at various content of ESO. The results showed that the two-stage process is considered to be more advantageous than the one-stage process. It can be concluded that the impact strength, critical stress intensity factor Kic and decomposition temperature of the polymer composite materials based on epoxy resin GELR 128 cured by Kingcure K-11 with content of ESO 5 phr in two-stage process was greater ones in one-stage process (impact strength: 35.012 kJ/m2, Kic: 2.72 MPa and decomposition temperature: 385.81 0C respectively).