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