TY - GEN
T1 - Similarity in degradation behavior by heat and irradiation between ethylene-propylene-diene rubber and silicone rubber
AU - Ohki, Yoshimichi
AU - Kotani, Hiromichi
AU - Fujishima, Daichi
AU - Hirai, Naoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partly supported by the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Japan through Aging Management Technical Evaluation Enhancement Program.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/1/12
Y1 - 2018/1/12
N2 - Flame retardant ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (FR-EPR) and silicone rubber (SiR) are two major materials for safety-related cables in nuclear power plants. For such cables, degradation of their insulation is a matter of serious concern. Regarding the above, sheets of FR-EPR and SiR were aged either thermally or concurrently by heat and gamma radiation and the resultant changes in various properties were systematically compared and analysed from various aspects by FT-IR, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetry/differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA), and scanning probe microscopy (SPM), and by measuring indenter modulus, elongation at break (EAB), tensile strength (TS), and complex permittivity. As a result of the experiments, both FR-EPR and SiR become hard in a similar manner in both cases where the degradation was given by heat only or concurrently by heat and radiation. In both polymers, degradation induced cross-linking and breaking of chemical bonds were observed by FT-IR, DSC, TG/DTA. Furthermore, a contrastive difference in dielectric behavior between SiR and FR-EPR was also observed in complex permittivity.
AB - Flame retardant ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (FR-EPR) and silicone rubber (SiR) are two major materials for safety-related cables in nuclear power plants. For such cables, degradation of their insulation is a matter of serious concern. Regarding the above, sheets of FR-EPR and SiR were aged either thermally or concurrently by heat and gamma radiation and the resultant changes in various properties were systematically compared and analysed from various aspects by FT-IR, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetry/differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA), and scanning probe microscopy (SPM), and by measuring indenter modulus, elongation at break (EAB), tensile strength (TS), and complex permittivity. As a result of the experiments, both FR-EPR and SiR become hard in a similar manner in both cases where the degradation was given by heat only or concurrently by heat and radiation. In both polymers, degradation induced cross-linking and breaking of chemical bonds were observed by FT-IR, DSC, TG/DTA. Furthermore, a contrastive difference in dielectric behavior between SiR and FR-EPR was also observed in complex permittivity.
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U2 - 10.1109/CEIDP.2017.8257481
DO - 10.1109/CEIDP.2017.8257481
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045199242
T3 - Annual Report - Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, CEIDP
SP - 157
EP - 160
BT - CEIDP 2017 - IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomenon
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomenon, CEIDP 2017
Y2 - 22 October 2017 through 25 October 2017
ER -