Developmental studies on High temperature bis-maleimide resin Composites

This report presents the developmental studes on high Tg bismale-imide resin systems for high temperature applications. Epoxy novolacs (EPN) are a special class of resins belonging to the epoxy resin family showing medium to high functionality. The only limitations of these resins are their glass transition temperature. The Tg of these resins can be improved by blending them with bismale-imide. With this background investigations were carried out to modify an EPN with bismale-imide for high performance applications. The main objectives of this studies are Synthesis three different types of bismile-imide, modification of EPN resin with these bismile-imide and to evaluate these formulation for performance applications. This document summarized the Ph.D work carried out Ms Vanaja, and her thesis has been submitted for evaluation on 5th June 2003 to the Bangalore University