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Xiaoyu Wang1, Xi Yuan2,3, Mingliang Wu4
1Beijing Spacecraft System Engineering, Beijing 100094, China. antlb@163.com.
Abstract:
Piezoelectric fiber composites (PFC) have shown excellent performance in the areas of vibration control and deformation control. The viscosity and rigidity of the epoxy resin before and after curing, respectively, were very important factors that affected the performance of PFC. In this paper, Aradite 2020, DP 460, and DP 490 epoxy resins, with the viscosities of 0.15, 25.0, and 250.0 Pa·s, respectively, were employed to encapsulate the piezoelectric fiber composite. The PFC that was packaged with Araldite 2020 had the best free strain of 1420 ppm and tip displacement of 17.8 mm. DP 490 caused the lowest performance of PFC, due to the highest viscosity. When the environmental temperature increased from -40 to +80 °C, the free strain of PFC with Aradite 2020 increased at first and then decreased, reaching a maximum value of 1440 ppm at 30 °C, which was mainly related to the mismatch of the resin/ceramic thermal expansion coefficient.
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