[en] The aim of this work is to model the total heat flow curve obtained by standard differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) in the glass transition-enthalpy recovery range of temperature. To this aim, a mathematical model is proposed, which allows to estimate the reversing and non-reversing curves from the total heat flow curve obtained in a standard DSC test. The model is optimally fitted to the total heat flow curve by non linear regression techniques. Similarly to modulated temperature-DSC (MTDSC), the model allows for separation of the reversing and non-reversing processes, but with the important difference consisting in that, since only total heat flow data are involved in the calculation, the separated signals will not be affected by the modulation frequency. Taking these differences into account, the separation obtained by the model is compared to the one obtained by MTDSC, and an estimation of the frequency effect is also obtained. The possibility of applying this model is of great interest for the study of the physical aging of noncrystalline or partially noncrystalline materials, which when stored at temperatures below its glass transition temperature, evolve spontaneously toward a state of equilibrium, experiencing what is known as enthalpy relaxation. In those situations, the study of the glass transition by standard DSC is very complicated, unless the thermal history is previously erased, which would alter the material itself. It should be mentioned that the importance of the proposed model does not lie on the possibility of obtaining by standard DSC something similar to what is obtained by MTDSC, but on the fact that the obtained estimation of the glass transition temperature is free, differently than in the MTDSC case, from the frequency effect.

[gl] O obxectivo deste traballo é modelizar a curva de fluxo de calor total que se obtén a partir de ensaios de calorimetría diferencial de varrido (DSC) estándar no rango de temperaturas da transición vítrea e a recuperación entálpica. Para iso proponse un modelo matemático que permite a estimación das curvas de fluxo de calor reversing e non-reversing (utilízase a denominación inglesa para evitar a confusión con procesos termodinámicamente reversibles ou irreversibles) a partir da curva de fluxo de calor total obtida nun ensaio de calorimetría diferencial de varrido. O modelo axústase de forma óptima á curva de fluxo de calor total mediante técnicas de regresión non lineal. Analogamente ao MTDSC, o modelo proposto permite separar os procesos reversing e non-reversing, pero coa diferenza importante de que ao traballar con datos de fluxo de calor total, os sinais separados non se verán afectadas pola frecuencia de modulación. Tendo en conta estas diferenzas, a separación obtida co modelo compárase coa obtida mediante MTDSC e obtense unha estimación do efecto da frecuencia. A posibilidade de aplicar este modelo resulta de especial interese no estudo do avellentamento físico de materiais amorfos ou parcialmente amorfos, os cales ao ser almacenados a temperaturas inferiores á súa temperatura de transición vítrea, evolucionan espontáneamente cara a un estado de equilibrio experimentando o que se coñece como relaxación entálpica. Nesas situacións, o estudo da transisción vítrea mediante DSC estándar é moi complicado, a non ser que se borre previamente a historia térmica, o cal alteraría o material. Convén destacar que a importancia do modelo non radica en poder obter mediante DSC estándar algo similar ao que se obtén mediante MTDSC, senón en que a estimación da temperatura de transición vítrea obtida está libre, a diferenza do caso MTDSC, do efecto da frecuencia.