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Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection  2025, Vol. 45 Issue (1): 137-147    DOI: 10.11902/1005.4537.2024.297
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Assessment on Performance Decay Induced by Hot Air Aging for Typical Fluoroelastomer Sealing Materials
LIU Ming(), ZHANG Liandong, SUN Zhihua, GAO Meng, YAN Wei, ZHAO Mingliang
Aviation Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Corrosion and Protection for Aviation Materials, AECC Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, Beijing 100095, China
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LIU Ming, ZHANG Liandong, SUN Zhihua, GAO Meng, YAN Wei, ZHAO Mingliang. Assessment on Performance Decay Induced by Hot Air Aging for Typical Fluoroelastomer Sealing Materials. Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection, 2025, 45(1): 137-147.

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Abstract  

The performance variation of a typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 due to hot air aging at 160, 180, 200, 220 and 240 oC, respectively was assessed, in terms of its hardness, compressive permanent deformation rate, tensile strength, elongation at break and other parameters. The corresponding change of its molecular structure were characterized by means of Fourier infrared spectroscopy and other methods. Based on Arrhenius empirical formula, the model of performance decay and life degradation of fluoroelastomer FX-17 was also established. The results show that after being hot air aged, the maximum change range of Shore hardness increased from the initial value of 79 HA to 92 HA, the maximum change range of compressive permanent deformation rate increased to 116% of the initial value, and the maximum change range of tensile strength decreased from the initial value of 15 MPa to 8 MPa. The maximum change range of elongation at break decreased from the initial value of 199% to 125%. In the process of aging in hot air, the dehydrofluorination of large molecules of FX-17 mainly occurs, which leads to a chain reaction of free radical aging. When the compression permanent deformation rate is used as the evaluation index of the sealing failure of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17, its service life can reach more than 2700 h at 200 oC.

Key words:  fluoroelastomer      air aging      seal failure      dehydrofluorination      life prediction     
Received:  12 September 2024      32134.14.1005.4537.2024.297
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Corresponding Authors:  LIU Ming, E-mail: luminousa@126.com

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Fig.1  Basic chemical structure of the fluoroelastomer FX-17
Fig.2  Physical pictures of sustained load compression fixture (a) and sustained load tensile fixture (b)
Fig.3  Appearances of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 sam-ples after sustained load compression tests for 35 d (a) and 77 d (b) in hot air at different temperatures
Fig.4  Appearances of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 samples after sustained load tensile tests for 35 d (a) and 77 d (b) in hot air at different temperatures
Fig.5  Surface morphologies of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 before (a, b) and after hot air aging for 77 d at 200 oC (c, d), 220 oC (e, f) and 240 oC (g, h)
Fig.6  Tensile fracture morphologies of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 after hot air aging at 240 oC for 0 d (a, b), 7 d (c, d), 35 d (e, f) and 77 d (g, h)
Fig.7  Tensile fracture morphologies of fluoroelastomer FX-17 after hot air aging for 77 d at 200 oC (a, b) and 220 oC (c, d)
Fig.8  Variations of Shore's hardness values of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 during hot air aging at different temperatures
Fig.9  Changes of permanent compression deformation rates of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 during hot air aging at different temperatures
Fig.10  Variations of tensile strengths of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 during hot air aging at different temperatures
Fig.11  Variations of elongations at break of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 during hot air aging at different temperatures
Fig.12  Mass change rates of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 during hot air aging at 200 oC
Fig.13  Mass fraction of various elements on the tensile fracture surface of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 after hot air aging tests
Fig.14  Thermo-gravimetric analysis curves of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 after hot air aging tests: (a) residual mass percentage, (b) thermal mass loss rate
Fig.15  Infrared spectra of typical fluoroelastomer FX-17 after hot air aging at 210 oC (a) and 270 oC(b) for different time
Aging time τ / d433 K453 K473 K493 K513 K
10.90900.88490.85240.8206-
30.85640.82120.70560.74420.6727
50.83310.79170.7082--
70.81190.79240.72610.67290.5362
10----0.4345
140.81860.78340.63470.59240.3526
17----0.2959
210.80780.73020.61580.41910.2420
280.80590.69650.54820.36470.1066
350.79480.67290.56180.2956-
42--0.50270.2482-
490.77100.64640.39700.1490-
56--0.42630.1296-
63-0.61490.38240.1086-
770.74350.58680.35230.0250-
91--0.2760--
1050.66890.48210.2549--
1330.58420.3869---
Table 1  Obtained aging performance index data of fluoroelastomer FX-17 by hot air aging-sustained compression tests
T / KBiKi / d-1σ2FrR test
5130.77430.05810.0007155.6-0.9843|r| ≥ r0.05 (5) = 0.754
4930.84870.03350.0013156.9-0.9696|r| ≥ r0.05 (10) = 0.576
4730.72120.00890.0023486.7-0.9869|r| ≥ r0.05 (13) = 0.514
4530.81390.00450.0009458.3-0.9882|r| ≥ r0.05 (11) = 0.553
4330.85140.00210.0008130.7-0.9638|r| ≥ r0.05 (10) = 0.576
Table 2  Linear regression analysis results of lnP and τ1.01 for fluoroelastomer FX-17 based on hot air aging-sustained compression test data
Fig.16  Relationship between lnK and 1/T in hot air aging-sustained compression tests oftypical fluoroelastomer FX-17
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