| The purpose of this work is to investigate the rheological properties of epoxy resin filled with high concentrations of aluminum borate (9Al;The thesis is consisted of three parts. The first is the conformation of the internal structure of whisker network and its deformation. By applying the external shearing force, both steady and dynamic, to the whisker suspension, the responses of the rheological properties have been monitored. The data is interpreted and quantitative analyses are carried out.;The second is the reformation behavior of the deformed internal structure. No major study is done about reformation behavior of the internal structure of short fiber suspension. In this part, the condition of deformed internal structure is analyzed and then reformation behavior under zero shearing force is studied.;The third is the phenomenological similarity of rheological properties between the whisker suspension and the liquid crystal polymer. This phenomenon is observed for only whisker suspension not for ordinary glass fiber suspension due to whiskers' small dimension.;The fourth is the investigation about effects of whisker/whisker interaction and whisker/resin interaction on the rheological behavior.;From these studies, the change of rheological status upon the external force such as processing procedure has been clarified. |
