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Thermal Stability and Flame Retardancy of Epoxy/Synthetic Fiber Composites

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Epoxy is one of the most important and widely used thermosetting resins. Epoxy resins can further be reinforced with synthetic fibers to improve their performance from the aspects of stronger specific stiffness and strength, better fatigue endurance, and being more resistant to corrosion and chemicals. However, most neat epoxy-based thermosets are easily flammable. The presence of synthetic fiber reinforcements also affects the thermal decomposition process, pyrolysis kinetics, and combustion behaviors of epoxy resins. Depending on epoxy monomers and curing agents, although most of the cured epoxy resins show flame retardancy to some extent, they are still not enough to pass a stringent industrial standard flammable test, so that their more extensive applications in engineering fields are still limited. Therefore, to reduce their inherent fire risk and widen their application range, different flame retardant strategies have been developed to enhance the thermal stability and reduce the flammability of epoxy-based materials, including phosphorus-based, silicon-based, nitrogen-based, nanomaterials-based, and metal-organic framework materials, etc. For these different systems, their specific flame retardant mechanisms are introduced in this chapter, and their advantages and shortcomings are also discussed.

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  1. Department of Materials and Production Engineering, The Sirindhorn International Thai German Graduate School of Engineering (TGGS), King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Bangsue, Bangkok, Thailand

    Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa

  2. Department of Materials and Production Engineering, The Sirindhorn International Thai German Graduate School of Engineering (TGGS), King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB),, Bangsue, Bangkok, Thailand

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Shen, R., Quan, Y., Wang, Q. (2022). Thermal Stability and Flame Retardancy of Epoxy/Synthetic Fiber Composites. In: Mavinkere Rangappa, S., Parameswaranpillai, J., Siengchin, S., Thomas, S. (eds) Handbook of Epoxy/Fiber Composites . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8141-0_11-1

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