Effects of Thermal and Solvent Aging on Breakdown Voltage of TPE, PBTPET Alloy, and PBT Insulated Low Voltage Electric Wire.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Polymers Volume 2013, Article ID 493731, 11 pages /10.1155/2013/493731 Research Article Effects of Thermal and Solvent Aging on Breakdown Voltage of TPE, PBT/PET Alloy, and PBT Insulated Low Voltage Electric Wire Eun-Soo Park Youngchang Silicone Co., Ltd., 481-7 Gasan-Dong, Kumchun-Gu, Seoul 153-803, Republic of Korea Correspondence should be addressed to Eun-Soo Park; t2phage1@ Received 22 March 2013; Revised 14 June 2013; Accepted 17 June 2013 Academic Editor: Changwoon Nah Copyright 漏 2013 Eun-Soo Park. his is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Tests were performed to evaluate the efects of thermal and solvent aging on the mechanical and dielectric breakdown properties of four types of polyester resins, namely, the insulation layer of poly(butylene terephthalat) (PBT)- based thermoplastic elastomer (TPE, TPE1), poly(butylene 2,6-naphthalate)-based TPE (TPE2), PBT/poly(ethylene terephthalate) alloy (Alloy), and PBT extruded onto a copper conductor of low voltage electric wire. he tensile specimens used in this series were prepared from the same extruded resins. he prepared electric wires and tensile specimens were thermally aged in air and in toluene, xylene, TCB, and NMP. When Alloy and PBT were thermally aged in toluene, xylene and TCB at 120鈭 C for 6 h, the tensile properties were signiicantly decreased compared to TPE1 and TPE2 at the same condition. he reduction of elongation at break of Alloy was more discernible than that of PBT. his result indicated that Alloy is more afected by thermal and solvent ageing. Among them, TPE2 showed the highest breakdow