A series of acrylic oligomers having different hydroxyl value (OHV) and molecular weight ladders with constant calculated T
g were cured with hexamethoxymethylmelamine (HMMM) in the presence of sulfonic acid catalyst at the mixing ratio of OH/OCH
3=1.0 (mole ratio). Dynamic viscoelastic properties and tensile properties of these clear coating films were measured.
Cross-link density,
Tg and tan δ
max of cured films were analysed as a function of OHV and molecular weight or
QE of acrylic oligomer, where
QE is a fraction of free end group in acrylic oligomer molecule which should not been incorproated in the cross-linked networks. The regression equations which have extremely high correlation coefficients were obtained for these physical properties.
Young's modulus, tensile strength and elongation at break were also analysed as a function of cross-link density and molecular weight or
QE of acrylic oligomer, and the regression equations which have considerably high correlation coefficients were obtained for these properties.
From these results, it has been found that the viscoelastic and tensile properties are clearly reflected by cross-link density and molecular weight. If the OHV and molecular weight or
QE of acrylic oli-gomer were given, one can predict these physical properties. By the regression analysis,
QE value indicated to be more correlative than the molecular weight.
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