Polymer Engineering 2 - MATS3574

 
Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Materials Science and Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.materials.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 3
 
 
EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Strategies to reduce stress and increase toughness. Creep, recovery and stress relaxation. Time-temperature superposition, fatigue, selection of commodity plastics, engineering plastics and elastomers for particular applications. Degradation. Processing of polymers.