Book Description

To achieve acceptable performance and long-term durability at elevated temperatures (350 to 600 F) for high-speed transport systems, further improvements of the high-performance matrix materials will be necessary to achieve very long-term (60,000-120,000 service hours) retention of mechanical properties and damage tolerance. This report emphasizes isoimide modification as a complementary technique to semi-interpenetrating polymer networks (SIPN's) to achieve greater processibility, better curing dynamics, and possibly enhanced thermo-mechanical properties in composites. A key result is the demonstration of enhanced processibility of isoimide-modified linear and thermo-setting polyimide systems. Lau, Kreisler S. Y. and Landis, Abraham L. and Chow, Andrea W. and Hamlin, Richard D. Unspecified Center AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; DURABILITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENTS; MATRIX MATERIALS; POLYIMIDES; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SERVICE LIFE; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT; CURING; DAMAGE; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; TOLERANCES (MECHANICS)...