| Course Language |
English |
| Course Type |
Technical Elective Courses |
| Course Level |
Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies |
Lecture, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice.
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| Course Coordinator |
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| Course Lecturer(s) |
- Asst. Prof. Dr. C. Merih Şengönül
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| Course Assistants |
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| Course Objectives |
The course aims the development of an understanding of polymer materials and their shaping processes together with compounding to create multiphase systems such as blends and composites. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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Student will understand the macromolecular structure and different architectures of polymer molecules, their effect on crsytallinity and amorphous behavior as well as phase transitions.
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Sudent will get familiar with many industrial polymers and engineering polymers, copolymers and their blends and learn the primary and secondary bonding between the chain molecules and their effect on their thermoplastic and thermosetting behavior as well as their mechanical properties as well as recycling
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Student will get the basic idea of polymer synthesis and averaging of molecular weight distribution of polymers and its effect on their thermal and mechanical properties.
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Student will have basic understanding of viscoeleasticiy and polymer rheology
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Student will be able to understand various processing and molding operations and be able to analytically analyze extrusion process.
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| Course Content |
Introduction to hydrocarbons and macromolecular structures, homopolymers, copolymers, elastomers, blends and thermosets, morphology of polymers, semicrystalline and amorhous states, polymer additives, mechanical properties, differential scanning calorimetry and dilatometry, rheological properties, non Newtonian flow, viscoelasticity, melt flow index and rheometers, melting and mixing; die forming, extrusion based processes, molding processes, manufacture of tires and other rubber products. |
