1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Laboratory exercises	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Review of polymer systems and properties of importance for the polymers like engineering materials as well as basic of processing and designing of polymer engineering materials properties.
THE CONTENTS OF THE COURSE:
1st week: Term and review of polymer materials. Structure features and composition.

2nd week: Requirements and properties of polymer engineering materials. Mechanic
static properties. Deformation and rheology.

3rd week: Viscoelastic properties. Time dependence of deformation and stress.

4th week: Thermal properties. Thermomechanical curve. Deformation states.

5th week: Rheologycal properties. Rheologycal models.

6th week: Cyclic stress. Viscoelastic functions. Relaxation spectrums. Specificity of
polymer engineering materials.

7th week: Durability of materials. Physical degradation. Aging with chemical reaction.
Degradation. Kinetic models.

8th week: Wear and perishing of polymer engineering materials.

9th week: Multiphase polymer systems. Modification of properties.

10th week: Modelling of multiphase polymer systems for individual application.
Additives.

11th week: Overview of procedure of processing. Extrusion. Moulding.

12th week: Specificity of processing of thermoplastics, duromers, elastomers and
thermoplastic elastomer.

13th week: Cellular materials. Forming.

14th week: Reinforced materials. Forming of reinforced materials, thermoplastics and
duromers. Control of properties through process features.

15th week: Polymer waste. Mixed polymer waste. Recycling.
GENERAL AND SPECIFIC COMPETENCE:
Understanding structure/properties relations of polymer engineering materials. Importance for processing and application.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Attending lectures, making of seminars, solving independent seminar problems, making reports from exercises.
FORMAT OF INSTRUCTION
Lectures, oral seminars, laboratory exercises.
MONITORING STUDENT WORK
Partial tests (2 times) (written) or exam (written and/or oral)
MONITORING OF THE COURSE QUALITY AND SUCCESSFULNESS:
Student questionnaire.
METHODOLOGICAL PREREQUISITES
Organic chemistry, physical chemistry

1. Compare the molecular structure and supermolecular structure of polymers and static structure and dynamic structure of polymers
2. Disign the structure and properties of polymeric materials during the production process
3. Explain different types of degradation and process of flammability
4. Define of structure and properties of multiphase polymer systems
5. Choose the methods of processing of polymer materials into a finished product
6. Evaluation the effect of process parametars and material on the rheological behavior, heat transfer, structuring in processing and product properties in the individual processes

1. 1.C. Hall, Polymer Materials, J. Wiley & Sons, New. York, 1990.
   2.V. Eisele, Introduction to Polymers Physics, Spring Verlag, New York, 1990.
   3.R. G. Griskey, Polymer Process Engineering, Hapman and Hall, New York, 1995.
   4.W.M. Kuliche, Fliessverhalten von Stoffen und Stoffgemischen, Huthig & Wepf Verlag Basel, 1996.,
2. 1.H.L.Williams, Polymer Engineering Elsevier Sci. Publ. Comp. , N.Y., 1985.
   
   2. A.A. Collyer and L.A. Ultracki, Polymer Rheology and Processing, Chapman & Hall, Hampshire, 1990.,

Izborni kolegij - Regular modul - Advanced Materials and Technologies
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Izborna grupa - Regular modul - Advanced Materials and Technologies
Izborna grupa - Regular modul - Applied Organic Chemistry
Izborna grupa - Regular modul - Environmental Chemistry and Green Technologies