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Mechanical properties of inorganic particle reinforced epoxy composites for gas insulated switchgear

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In this study, the particle reinforced epoxy composite with alumina and silica was considered to insulation material for the gas insulated switchgears (GIS). The single (alumina or silica) and mixed particle (alumina-silica) reinforced epoxy composites were fabricated to investigate the mechanical properties according to the content of the particles. The material properties of the alumina reinforced composites showed rapid decreasing behavior at the particle content of 40 wt% and slowly recovered. Whereas, the case of the silica did not show the severly decreased mechanical properties at the same particle content compare to the alumina. The mechanical properties of the mixed particle reinforced composites showed the increasing with the silica content and the effect of the particle reinforced epoxy composite system was evaluated to be greater for silica than alumina. Therefore, the proper use of mixing of alumina and silica particles was assessed to be effective in improving manufacturing and material properties in epoxy composite.

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    Bok-Yeol Seok

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Joo-Eon Park is a Senior Researcher of ICT Research Department at Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems Co., Ltd., Korea. He received the B.Eng. degree in Robot System Engineering from Tongmyong University, Korea in 2006. He received the M.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea in 2008. He received the Ph.D. degree in Molecular and Material Science from Kyushu University, Japan in 2011. His research interests are material design of engineering plastics and reliability diagnosis of composite materials.

Bok-Yeol Seok is a Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Daelim University College, Korea. He received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Busan National University, Korea in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electro and Electric Systems Engineering from Kyushu University, Japan in 2000. His research interests are high voltage phenomena and insulation design of high voltage electric power apparatus.

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Park, JE., Seok, BY. Mechanical properties of inorganic particle reinforced epoxy composites for gas insulated switchgear. J Mech Sci Technol 34, 2795–2799 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-020-0612-7

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