ME 418: Engineering Design with Polymers

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ME 418 Engineering Design with Polymers, Fall09 (1) Sections: 001, 003

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Catalog Description: 418 Engineering Design with Polymers. I,II; 3cr. Implications for plastics part design of polymer classification, structure, melt rheology, mixing, polymer blends, anisotropy, solidification, mechanical behavior, failure. Plastics design for electrical, optical, acoustic and barrier properties. P:Sr st or cons inst.
Course Prerequisite(s)

ME 313
Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

Senior or permission from instructor
Textbook(s) and/or other required material

Materials Science of Polymer for Engineers, Osswald, T.A., and G. Menges, Hanser Publishers, Munich, 1996.
Course objectives

Familiarize student with polymeric materials as used for design. The four P's concept is used: Polymers, Processing, Product and Performance.
Topics covered

Implications for plastics part design of polymer classification, structure, melt rheology, mixing, polymer blends, anisotropy, solidification, mechanical behavior, failure. Plastics design for electrical, optical, acoustic and barrier properties.
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Midterm exam Final exam Homework assignements
Person(s) who prepared this description

Tim A. Osswald

Copyright 2007 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Date last modified: 06-Aug-2007
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