Original Article
  • 에폭시 SMC B-stage의 정량평가 방법 비교 및 압축성형 Charge Patterns에 따른 기계적 물성 변화

  • Moon Woo Choi*, Kyung Uk Roh*, Seo Jung Jung*†

  • * Korea Caron Industry Promotion Agency, 2nd R&D Office

  • Comparison of Quantitative Methods for B-Stage Evaluation in Epoxy SMC and the Effect of Charge Pattern on Mechanical Properties in Compression Molding

  • 최문우* · 노경욱* · 정서정*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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This Article

Correspondence to

  • Seo Jung Jung

  • * Korea Caron Industry Promotion Agency, 2nd R&D Office

  • E-mail: seojeong@kcarbon.or.kr