Polymer Science and Engineering 1 - MATS3004
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Materials Science and Engineering
Course Outline: http://www.materials.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
Excluded: MATS3564
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Physical structure of polymers: primary and secondary bonds; amorphous, semi-crystalline, and rubbery states; molecular statistics of rubbery states; chain branching, networking; iso-free volume theory; properties affected by primary bonds; physical properties affected by secondary bonds.
Deformation behaviour of polymers: fundamental rheology; glassy and viscoelastic behaviour; effect of molecular weight, temperature and shear rate; structure-property correlation in glassy, semicrystalline and oriented polymers; free volume and fractal theories; tensile, shear, compression and impact properties; effect of temperature and strain rates.
Commodity and specialty plastics: additives in plastics; commercial manufacture and application; single phase and multiphase conducting polymers.