Practical application of thermal analysis in the development and study of polymer composites
Modern multifunctional thermoanalytical complexes equipped with computers are inherently mobile laboratories. They are able to solve a wide variety of problems in materials science and technology, both in applied research and in the quality control of products supplied to manufacturing enterprises. Using the example of experimental data obtained in the study of the curing processes of thermosetting semi-finished products (prepregs) of polymer composite materials (PCM), the methodological possibilities of modern devices for thermal analysis are shown. They allow investigating and predicting changes in the technological properties of prepregs in a wide temperature range.