Course Details

Polymer Materials

Academic Year 2024/25

CJ004 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

♦ 1.Outline of plastics produced in our country and in abroad, classification. ♦ 2.Production of plastics. New plastics with maximum service life. ♦ 3.Properties of plastics. ♦ 4.Cellulose, polyethylene. ♦ 5.Polypropylene, PIB and polytetrafluorethylene- Teflon. ♦ 6.PVC, production, properties, utilization. PC and C. ♦ 7.Polyamides, polystyrene. ♦ 8.Epoxy resins. ♦ 9.Polyesters. ♦ 10.Polyurethans. ♦ 11.Acrylated polymeres – polyacrylates. ♦ 12.Other used polymers (furan resins, phenoplasts, aminoplasts etc.) ♦ 13.Silicones. Possibilities of plastics utilization (into cement mortars and concrete, paints, glues etc.), liquidation of polymers.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

♦ 1. Introductory lesson, work safety, laboratory regulations ♦ 2. Determination of water vapour diffusion properties of thin layers polymer sheets and coatings ♦ 3. Determination of CO2 diffusion properties of polymer coatings ♦ 4. Preparation of PVC plastisols, adhesion and strength test, influence of different composition and gel temperatures ♦ 5. Theory of identification and identification of polymers in fire, dissolution test, pyrolitic test ♦ 6. Infrared spectroscopy-identification of plastic materials ♦ 7. Preparation and determination of properties of polymer concrete and polymer mortar ♦ 8. Preparation of phenol formaldehyde and urea-formaldehyde resins ♦ 9. Preparation of polymer mortars and determination of their properties ♦ 10. Preparation of polymer screeds, application, testing. Preparation of polymer concrete and porous polymer concrete ♦ 11. Determination of chemical resistance of plastic materials in various aggressive environments, applications analysis in the evaluation of the material exposed in the specific context ♦ 12. Excursions (e.g. Fatra Napajedla, Barum, or Rimtech etc.) ♦ 13. Credit test, inspection protocols, granting the credit