MET 439E - Engineering Polymers

Course Objectives

9. To introduce the fundamental aspects of polymerization mechanisms
10. To describe the polymer types and explain the differences between polymer classes and polymerization
11. To qualitatively explain the nature, configuration and dimension of the polymer chain, polymer branches and co polymerization
12. To express the relationship between molecular structure and the physical and mechanical properties of polymers
13. To explain phenomenological the amorphous state, the crystalline state and the elastomeric state.
14. To discuss, by means of introducing a thought experiment, four different regions of the viscoelastic behavior, the WLF negatron and the master curves for viscoelastic solids
15. To construct various analog viscoelastic models and enhance with sample problems
16. To explain polymer manufacting methods

Course Description

This course aims to introduce and describe the properties of thr polymeric materials and polymer-based materials as the advanced technological materials and details the manufacturing techniques of polymer-based materials.