Plymer Technology

Teaching Methods

Teaching will encompass conventional classroom lectures and laboratorial and computer modelling demonstrations. Assessment will include written tests and assignments to be undertaken by the students outside the classroom. There will be a final exam for those students failing to pass during the continuous assessment.

Learning Outcomes

To understand the influence of the properties of polymers on their processability

To know the major polymer processing technologies, their main characteristics and applications

To be able to select the most adequate technology for a given material/application

To understand the potential of polymer compounding, as a technology that enables adjusting the characteristics of available polymers to specific processing/service requirements

To recognize the technological development of polymer processing technology and identify future trends

To utilize the knowledge acquired for equipment selection, set up of operating conditions and process

troubleshooting

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Polymers and processability

2. Extrusion (main extrusion lines and extruders – constructive, functional and operational aspects)

3. Compounding (polymer additivation, blending and modification)

4. Injection moulding (the basic technology and variants)

5. Other processing technologies (blow moulding, thermoforming, rotational moulding)

6. Additive manufacturing technologies (rapid prototyping, laser sintering, electrospinning)

7. Composites processing

Assessment Methods

Evaluation
Avaliação - Continua: 100.0%

Bibliography

1. T. A. Osswald, Understanding Polymer Processing, Hanser, 2010

2. T. A. Osswald, J. P. Hernadez-Ortez, Polymer Processing, Hanser, 2006

3. Z. Tadmor, C. Gogos, Principles of Polymer Processing, Wiley-Interscience, 2006

4. S. G. Hatzikiriakos, K. B. Migler (eds) Polymer Processing Instabilities, 2005

5. C. D. Han, Rheology and Processing of Polymeric Materials (2 volumes), Oxford Univ Press, 2007

6. D. G. Baird, D. I. Collias, Polymer Processing: Principles and Design, Wiley-Butterworth, 1998