Material for 3rd Year Engineering Materials (Polymers)

Handouts

Polymer Processing lab

• Overview of Polymer Thermoforming

Lectures

1. Lecture 1 -- Introduction (no handout available)
2. Lecture 2 -- Polymerisation reactions
3. Lecture 3 -- RMM, MWD, Material properties, Crystallisation, Amorphous/Crystalline structures, Glass transition temperature
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4. Lecture 4 -- Introduction to Viscoelasticity Acetate:
   
5. Lecture 5 -- Viscoelasticity (no handout available online, short lecture)
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6. Lecture 6 -- Maxwell model, Kelvin model and Standard Linear Solid
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7. Lecture 7 -- Viscoelasticity, Boltzmann Superposition
   Acetates: (note that the second worked problem is Q.6 from Summer 1999)
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References and Reading

Recommended Text

• Principles of Polymer Engineering, 2nd Ed. ; N. G. McCrum, C. P. Buckley and C. B. Bucknall ; Oxford University Press, 1997.

• Check availability of the Second Edition
• Check availability of the First Edition

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